Go to Blazes (1942 film)
Appearance
Go to Blazes | |
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Directed by | Walter Forde |
Written by | Diana Morgan Angus MacPhail |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Starring | Will Hay Thora Hird Muriel George |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Len Page |
Release date | 1942 |
Running time | 9 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Go to Blazes is a short 1942 British information film, produced by the Ministry of Information, directed by Walter Forde and starring Will Hay and Thora Hird.[1]
Synopsis
When an incendiary bomb strikes his house during the Blitz, Hay fusses so ineptly with his extinguishing equipment that the bomb burns through the floor - and obligingly falls into a bucket of water in the basement. When a second bomb strikes, his daughter shows him how to do the job properly.
Cast
- Will Hay - Father
- Thora Hird - Elsie
- Muriel George - Mother
Reception
BFI Screenonline refers to it as a "wittily written information film." [2]
External links
- Go to Blazes at IMDb
References
- ^ "GO BLAZES Main Title (COI 957)". Iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Go to Blazes (1942)". Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-09.