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Director:
Walter Summers
Writers:
Patrick MacGil (writer)
Walter Summers (writer)
Release Date:
7 November 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
War more
Plot:
The First World War; a British Army platoon are delighted to be assigned to a quiet area of the trenches..front line... more | add synopsis
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WWI
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Cast

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Mickey Brantford ... Pvt. Pettigrew
Cyril McLaglen ... Cyril McClusky
Jack Raine ... Capt. Wilson
Hay Petrie ... Scruffy
Fred Groves ... Pvt. Lomax
Percy Parsons ... Pvt. Brett
Syd Crossley ... Cpl. Brown
Hamilton Keene ... Officer
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Directed by
Walter Summers 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Patrick MacGil  writer
Walter Summers  writer

Produced by
Walter Summers .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Theodor Sparkuhl 
Hal Young 
 
Film Editing by
Emile de Ruello 
Walter Stokvis 
 

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Runtime:
75 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
British International Pictures (BIP) more

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A great, forgotten film, 30 April 2006
8/10
Author: (markfuller@blueyonder.co.uk) from Bristol, England

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Most obviously comparable with Journey's End, this film, largely set in a front-line dug-out in the British trenches of WW1, is actually quite different; this platoon is a real mixed bunch, from the tyro new, young, raw recruit to the old BEF veteran, played magnificently by the perennially underrated Hay Petrie as somewhere between the Old Bill of the Bairnsfather cartoons, and the Private Baldrick of Blackadder Goes Forth...and he steals the film completely. But this is a psychological thriller...the tension inexorably rises as the frayed nerves of the platoon (at night they are haunted by the sounds of German miners, working below to undermine the trench system)leads to squabbles, then fighting, and real terror...

This is a very early sound film, so, as was typical, some of the acting tends towards the theatrical...but you do get swept up into the film, and the creation of, well, 'Suspense' is still highly effective. Highly recommended, if you ever get the chance...

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