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Bookmark this pagePainted Boats (1945)
Director: Charles Crichton
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From Time Out Film Guide
Ealing docu-drama portrait of English canal life, modestly charting the lives of two boat families with the aid of a Louis MacNeice commentary, and examining the demands of tradition and change in the immediate postwar world. The sole product of a proposed studio series to consolidate the wartime fusions of fiction and documentary, elsewhere sustained only intermittently until TV stepped wholeheartedly into the breach.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Charles Crichton
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Jenny Laird, Robert Griffith, Bill Blewett, May Hallatt, Grace Arnold, Harry Fowler full cast
Duration: 63 mins
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