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8 August 1966 (USA) moreTagline:
What would have happened if the German army had crossed the English channel morePlot:
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. moreUser Comments:
Memorable more (14 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Pauline Murray | ... | Pauline | |
| Sebastian Shaw | ... | Doctor Richard Fletcher | |
| Bart Allison | ... | Skipworth | |
| Reginald Marsh | ... | IA Medical Officer | |
| Frank Bennett | ... | IA Political Leader | |
| Derek Milburn | |||
| Nicolette Bernard | ... | IA Woman Commandant | |
| Nicholas Moore | ... | IA Group Leader Moorfield | |
| Rex Collett | ... | IA NCO | |
| Michael Passmore | |||
| Peter Dineley | ... | German Officer | |
| Barrie Pattison | |||
| Honor Fearson | ... | Honor Hutton | |
| Ronald Phillips | |||
| Frank Gardner |
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USA:93 min | USA:97 min (director's cut)Country:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Started in 1956, completed in 1964, not released until 1965. moreQuotes:
Doctor Richard Fletcher: The appalling thing about fascism is that you've got to use fascist methods to get rid of it. moreFAQ
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The film sticks tenaciously in the memory, in a way that slick studio productions often fail to do.
Visually, a fair bit of the film is a pastiche of German propaganda newsreels, or borrows from that library of pictures. This augments the feeling of realism and makes it an even bigger shock to see German troops marching through London, or relaxing off-duty, taking in the sights and admiring the women. No studio film would dare to take such an approach. And where did they find so much genuine-looking equipment? No studio film-researcher would ever be that scrupulous about accuracy.
The sound-recording is dreadful and it would benefit from one of those clever clean-up jobs that are available these days. But what is said, and how it's said, are unforgettable. The wrong-headed justifications of Fascism that pepper this film sound like real people's words and they're spoken by what clearly are real people, who are taking a little time off from their real jobs to appear in the film. For instance, the fat, middle-aged, bureaucratic bully who voices many of the arguments has to have been in real life a school teacher or a bank manager: he looks and sounds the part in a way that studio actors working from a polished script could never manage.
The ending is forced, but only because you feel that the film would be endless without a forced ending. Although a lot of things take place that are genuinely shocking (I won't list them as I'd have to announce spoilers), the point of the film isn't to relate a narrative that has a defined beginning, middle and end. The point is to make you feel that this is all real and make you wonder what your response would have been if the Nazis had started running your country.