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Bookmark this pageJohnny Frenchman (1945)
Director: Charles Frend
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From Time Out Film Guide
Hands-across-the-water propaganda for the Allied effort at the end of the war, as a Cornish fishing village is eventually led, by means of true love, to abandon its hatred of a rival Breton community and realise that the French are people too. Pretty dim drama (and comedy), though it is psychologically acute in revealing Patricia Roc's romantic preference for a visiting Frenchman over the local lad who woos her by shoving pilchards down her back.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Charles Frend
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Paul Dupuis, Ralph Michael, Paul Dupuis, Frederick Piper, Arthur Hambling, James Knight, Alfie Bass full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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