Landfall (1949 film)

Landfall
Directed byKen Annakin
Written byTalbot Jennings (screenplay)
Gilbert Gunn & Anne Burnaby (adaptation)
Based onnovel by Nevil Shute
Produced byVictor Skutezky
StarringMichael Denison
Patricia Plunkett
CinematographyWilkie Cooper
Edited byPeter Graham Scott
Music byPhilip Green
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British-Pathé
Release date
  • 27 October 1949 (1949-10-27) (UK)
Running time
86 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£141,127 (UK)[2]

Landfall is a 1949 British war film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett and Kathleen Harrison.[3] The screenplay was by Talbot Jennings from an adaptation by Gilbert Gunn and Anne Burnaby of the 1940 novel Landfall: A Channel Story by Nevil Shute.[4]

  1. ^ "LANDFALL – British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
  2. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p490
  3. ^ "Landfall". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Landfall (1949)". Archived from the original on 10 March 2016.