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Went the Day Well? (1942)

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Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film covers 72 hours in the life of the small British village of Bramley Green, which serves as the focal point for an attempted German invasion. Immediately upon parachuting in the community, vicious Nazi officer Ortier (Basil Sydney) makes contact with local Fifth Columnist Oliver Wileford (Leslie Banks), using the film's British title as their password. Fortunately, Democracy

Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Classics

Mar 22, 2005

Rialto Pictures

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One of the most subversive films to come out of World War II, a British drama that was unsettling in its day and is even more so now.

October 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Part paranoid propaganda, part thriller and part quaint period study, Went the Day Well? is an entertaining oddity begging for an update.

July 15, 2011 Full Review Source: Detroit News | Comment
Detroit News
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As an effective work of surreptitious World War II propaganda, "Went the Day Well" is instructive on many levels.

May 24, 2011 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

The summer's first all-around audience-pleaser arrives this week after 70 years in hibernation.

May 19, 2011 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | Comment
Film-Forward.com

Home-front propaganda has rarely seemed so cutthroat or so cunning; for Americans, the chance to see this rarity is an opportunity to indulge in the sort of cinematic ecstasy that makes us obsessed with movies in the first place.

May 18, 2011 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

A sickeningly giddy action thriller that looks forward to Straw Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, and Red Dawn.

May 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

A wartime conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare and a surrealist masterpiece in which stoutly English-seeming army types reveal themselves to be Nazis, like the reflected figures turning their backs on us in RenĂ (C) Magritte's mirror.

July 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Still truly unnerving, one can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for audiences facing the very real threat of Nazi enslavement.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Fortunately, it's of more than mere historical interest thanks to some well-paced action, enthusiastic acting and the influence of Graham Greene's dark imagination.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
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1942. That is the important date to bear in mind when watching this film. That was when the film was made, and when the UK cinema auidences watching it knew that all that separated them from invasion was a few miles of sea. Imagine the impact it must have had!! Plucky Brits, living in the rural English idyll,

February 10, 2011
matertenebraum

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Went the day well? Now that you mention it, Saturday, May 23, 1942, started off nicely enough in the hamlet of Bramley End with the preparations for a wedding being a particular highlight. Major Hammond(Basil Sydney) creates quite a stir when he and his men show up unannounced for military exercises but everything

June 1, 2011
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