Reply With QuoteOld Bill and Son has Morland Graham digging trenches and attending singalongs in 1940 as if he thought it was still 1914. Unpublished Story begins with Richard Greene as a war correspondent at Dunkirk (though all we see is an officer's tent).
Can anyone provide a list of films that deal with the BEF in the Phoney War and the Fall of France?
I've already found the following:
Atonement
Weekend at Dunkirk
Piece of Cake
Leslie Norman's Dunkirk -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0051565/
The BBC's 2004 three part series on the Dunkirk evacuation, Dunkirk -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0400391/
ITV's Monsignor Renard features the immediate aftermath of the fall of France -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0234265/
The Ealing classic, The Captive Heart starts with the fall of France and then becomes a prisoner of war story -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0038396/
The Two Cities' film The Flemish Farm, although not about the Battle of France, is still set in the turbulent spring of 1940 -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0036392/ - and features a classic score from Ralph Vaughan Williams.
The BBC's Finest Hour series (and book) is well worth watching as it features a lot of first-hand accounts of those who took part in the Battles of France and Britain -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0273340/, http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/dvd/Finest-Hour/1053317.htm andhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Finest-Hour-Phil-Craig/dp/0340750413/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1288165805&sr=8-3
And one of my favourite films, the Ealing classic The Foreman Went to France -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0033621/ - with a great score by William Walton
I'm also fairly sure that the French film Les Jeux Interdits features some scenes from the fall of France -http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0033621/ - though it's a long time since I last saw it.
Nick
Old Bill and Son has Morland Graham digging trenches and attending singalongs in 1940 as if he thought it was still 1914. Unpublished Story begins with Richard Greene as a war correspondent at Dunkirk (though all we see is an officer's tent).
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Norway his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they disbelief him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Also starring Deborah Kerr as Kari Alstad, a Norwegian, Ralph Richardson and Francis L. Sullivan (as a Nazi of course)
Steve
I didn't include that film as it was not directly related to the Battle of France, though it's a very good film (and it has a high Archer quotient).
Nick
Two Thousand Woman is set in 1940 in France. As is part of Johnny Frenchman
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