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For those who have just discovered this film...

posted 10 years ago by brucepantages-1
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TCM "premiered" Went the Day Well? earlier this evening and I'm sure I'm not the only American who discovered it for the first time. Although I've long enjoyed British films, we seem to get only a trickle of them from time to time here in the States. With the exception of Leslie Banks, I didn't know any of the other actors. I set about to remedy this situation and found a wonderful resource known as movie-dude(dot)co(dot)uk You will have to figure that out for yourself, but under the title, Went the Day Well?, you will find all the actors pictured with their name and the name of the character they play. I found this to be very helpful because I think they all gave wonderful performances and I want to see more of them. Hope this helps others in their enjoyment of this and other British films.

[–] andyvanm 10 years ago

Amazing story and very graphic for its time, the acting was natural and it gives hope for the future of extraordinary ordinary people.. ... real people fighting a war in their own town....

[–] nhwa 10 years ago

Thanks for the tip about the movie-dude website. It's amazing -- very helpful to those of us who are always saying, "Who's that? Where have I seen him/her before?"

I know Marie Lohr from Pygmalion http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030637/reference-- a must-see, if you haven't yet.

[–] brucepantages-1 10 years ago

Thanks for the tip. Marie Lohr was one of the ones I was interested in seeing more of. She so reminded me of my grandmother's friends when I was a little kid in the 1950's...right down to the permanent waved hair and the well corseted waist. People's attitude towards life seemed different back then. More optimism.

[–] mrbizness1 10 years ago

Thanks for the info. I like watching the old British films and wish there were more available. It would be nice if Netflix or others had them.

[–] d.doherty 10 years ago

A lot of people have commented that, with the exception of Leslie Banks, the cast were unknowns. I differ ..... Elizabeth Allan was in several Hollywood classics like Garbo's Camille, and Selznick's definitive, "A Tale of Two Cities"(1935), and she played the mother of another actor here, Frank Lawton, who was The title character of David O'Se;lznick's magnum opus of 1935, "David Copperfield".

Basil Sydney is King Claudius in Olivier's "Hamlet"(1948) and Claude Rains's right hand man , Rufio,in the famous "Caesar and Cleopatra" of 1946.

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[–] lululaurie-2 9 years ago

A year plus later and I just discovered this film, love it. Checked out the site you listed and it is great too, thank you at this late date! Thank God for TCM. Next is Bulldog Drummond at Bay.

[–] joe_538 9 years ago

Banks I recognized and I've seen David Farrar in a few things, good movie!