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Went the Day Well? |
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| FILM / MOVIE TITLE |
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FILM STAR(S) WHO APPEAR IN THE LOCATION SCENES |
FILM / MOVIE LOCATIONS / SCENES |
| Went the Day Well? |
1942 |
Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns, Thora Hird, Patricia Hayes, Harry Fowler |
Turville, Buckinghamshire |
Director : Alberto Cavalcanti Production Company : Ealing Region : SOUTH EAST R-Z
Nazi invasion of small Buckinghamshire village, and the villagers giving them the cold steel up 'em. Excellent wartime propaganda.
Photo 021 of the church shows it now without the war memorial seen in the film. I am almost certain that this was a prop for the film and not a real one. In the film ou can clearly see the names listed on it and it includes a Major G. Fraser. Mrs Fraser who lives in the manor house in Bramley End in the film is a sixty-something woman who is presumably a widow and it would tie in that her husband, never mentioned, would have probably held such a position in the army. The plaque commemorates 'the men of this parish who fell' rather than giving an actual location and that slight vagueness also suggests that it was no more real than the large cross for the German soldiers in the churchyard at the end of the film. Philip Anderton
John Larkin states that Turville was also used in Dead of Night, 1945. |
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Went the Day Well?
wdw023. The set, built in front of the pub, taken from the churchyard gates. |
wdw023n. Now, from the churchyard gates towards the pub. |
Went the Day Well?
wdw023a. Post card showing Turville, without the "Post Office". Taken from the lane adjacent to the church. |
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Went the Day Well?
wdw024. Churchyard of St Mary's, Turville. |
wdw024n. Now. |
Went the Day Well?
wdw025a. All much the same angle, but with the Post Office set on left side of wdw025b. |
wdw025an. Now. |
Went the Day Well?
wdw025b. All much the same angle, but with the Post Office set on left side of wdw025b. |
wdw025bn. Now. |
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Went the Day Well?
wdw025c. All much the same angle, but with the Post Office set on left side of wdw025b. |
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Went the Day Well?
wdw025d. All much the same angle, but with the Post Office set on left side of wdw025b. |
wdw025dn. Now. |
Went the Day Well?
wdw025x. More evidence, kindly supplied by another villager, whose family have lived in the village since 1927. Showing the timber works office on the left, but with no Post Office! |
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Went the Day Well?
wdw026. Probably Ibstone House, on the hill above Turville. |
wdw026n. Now, the same place from the back, or road side. The front can't be photographed due to woodland. |
Went the Day Well?
wdw027. The pub. But the heavy shadow on the bottom right suggests a building??.the Post Office again. |
wdw027n. Now. Well, what an adventure, and what a wonderful set of pics. Heartiest congratulations and hugest thanks to Geff Barrett for his sleuthing. And, obviously the Day Went Very Well Indeed. |
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