Went the Day Well? is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 as propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by German paratroopers. Made during the war itself, it reflects on the greatest potential nightmares of many Britons of the time, and includes the first major role of Thora Hird.
During the Second World War a group of British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of "Bramley End". At first ...
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Went the Day Well? is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 as propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by German paratroopers. Made during the war itself, it reflects on the greatest potential nightmares of many Britons of the time, and includes the first major role of Thora Hird.
During the Second World War a group of British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of "Bramley End". At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts begin to grow about their true identity and purpose. When it is discovered that they are in reality disguised German soldiers intended to form the vanguard of a German invasion of England, the occupants of the village are rounded up and held prisoner in the local church. They attempt to escape to warn the local Home Guard, but are betrayed by the village squire, who is revealed to be a German spy. The German soldiers then ambush and kill the Home Guardsmen. Eventually one of the villagers...
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