Appendix 1: Synopses of films
fantasy in which the dual restrictions of British convention and
post-war austerity are overturned.
Piccadilly Incident
Herbert Wilcox, ABP, UK 1946.
Anna Neagle; Michael Wilding; Michael Laurence; Frances Mercer;
Coral Browne.
Diana (Neagle) and Alan (Wilding) meet and marry during the blitz
in wartime London and are then separated by their service duties.
When she returns to the UK after three years marooned on a
Pacific island Diana finds that Alan, after mourning her loss,
has remarried and had a son by his new American wife. The film's
ostensible concern is the legitimacy of this child.
A Place of One's Own
Bernard Knowles, Gainsborough, UK 1945.
James Mason; Barbara Mullen; Margaret Lockwood; Dennis Price.
'A couple buy a house they find to be haunted, and their young
companion is affected by the place. She is cured by a mysterious
doctor whose body had been found several hours before.' BFI
filecard.
Private's Progress
John Boulting, British Lion, UK 1956.
Ian Carmichael; Terry Thomas; Richard Attenborough; Dennis Price.
'An extremely innocent young national serviceman is taught a few
army dodges and becomes a dupe for jewel thieves. Celebrated
army farce with satirical pretensions; when released it had
something to make everyone in Britain laugh.' Halliwell 1987.
A Queen is Crowned
Castleton Knight (Producer). Rank, UK 1953.
Documentary record, in technicolor, of the June 1953 coronation
of the British Queen Elizabeth II, with a narration by Laurence
Olivier.
Reach For The Sky
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