The films made at Ealing during the war years were closely bound to the national war effort and marked a decisive change. Heroics were no longer the prerogative of gifted amateurs of the officer class, as the news of the time reminds us.
8.0 Gaumont-British News
April 1942: Tanker survives sea attack - Tobruk enjoying a quiet spell - The King inspects paratroops.
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The Foreman Went to France starring Tommy Trinder Clifford Evans
Constance Cummings
1940: Fred Carrick , foreman in an aircraft factory, is worried. Some of his firm's special purpose machinery is in France, in the path of the Nazi advance. In spite of his firm's unconcern, Fred is determined to retrieve the machinery, taking on Fifth Columnists, dive-bombers, refugees, lack of food and petrol, fires and death in the process.
Producer MICHAEL BALCON Director CHARLES FREND
. Films: page 16