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Farewell Again (1937)

Director: Tim Whelan

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From Time Out Film Guide

Carrying the same call to preparedness as Fire Over England (both were produced by Erich Pommer and scripted by Clemence Dane), this is a prototype In Which We Serve about a troopship bringing men home on leave after five years army service in India. Trouble stirs when orders require an immediate return to duty, but - after six hours in port during which all the carefully planted domestic problems and heartbreaks get a cursory airing - everybody nobly buckles to. Quite warmly praised at the time, but the class attitudes accepted as perfectly normal - the officers, suffering stoically, soothe other-rank grumbles with a patronising pat on the head; the gentry cavort over cocktails and dancing in the saloon while the lower orders huddle like squalid sardines below decks - are positively cringe-making. No wonder Churchill and the Tories were elected out after World War II.

Author: TM 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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    Posted on Mar 30 2008 08:59 anyone know where i can buy a copy of 'farewell again'?
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Cast & crew

Director: Tim Whelan

Producer: Erich Pommer

Cast: Leslie Banks, Flora Robson, Patricia Hilliard, Sebastian Shaw, René Ray, Anthony Bushell, Robert Newton, Edward Lexy, Wally Patch full cast

Duration: 85 mins


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