| The Foreman Went to France | |
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 Original UK quad format poster | |
| Directed by | Charles Frend |
| Screenplay by | Leslie Arliss John Dighton Angus MacPhail |
| Story by | J. B. Priestley |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | Clifford Evans Tommy Trinder Constance Cummings Gordon Jackson |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
| Edited by | Robert Hamer |
| Music by | William Walton |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists Ltd (UK)[1] |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes [1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $562,000[2] |
The Foreman Went to France (released in the USA as Somewhere in France [3]) is a 1942 British Second World War war film starring Clifford Evans, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings and Gordon Jackson.
It was based on the real-life wartime exploits of Welsh munitions worker Melbourne Johns, who rescued machinery used to make guns for Spitfires and Hurricanes.[4][5] It was an Ealing Studios film made in 1941 with the support of the War Office and the Free French Forces. All of the 'heroes' are portrayed as ordinary people caught up in the war.[6]
- ^ a b BBFC: The Foreman Went to France - Distributor(s) United Artists Corp. Ltd Linked 6 December 2015
- ^ "Three War Films Set to Star Prod". Variety. 13 May 1942. p. 13. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- ^ Slide, Anthony: Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities, page 124, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996 Linked 6 December 2015
- ^ Duncan Higgitt. "War hero out of oblivion". WalesOnline.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
- ^ Dr. Keith M. Johnson (5 March 2012). "The Great Ealing Film Challenge 50: The Foreman Went to France (1942)". HuffPost.
- ^ Judith Cook, Priestley, London: Bloomsbury, 1997, p. 179