This England | |
Director: | David MacDonald |
Producer: | John Corfield |
Music: | Richard Addinsell Orchestration, Roy Douglas Direction, Muir Mathieson |
Cinematography: | Mutz Greenbaum |
Studio: | British National Films |
Distributor: | World Pictures Corporation |
Runtime: | 84 mins |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
This England is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by David MacDonald and starring John Clements, Constance Cummings and Emlyn Williams.[1] The film follows the small English village of Cleveley and its historic resistance against tyrannical invaders recounted by one of the inhabitants to a visiting American journalist.
The film was made for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. Its title comes from a speech by John of Gaunt in the play Richard II by William Shakespeare.