This unique WWII Ealing production shows women taking on the disguised vanguard of a German invasion with a variety of weapons (most memorably a hatchet!).
Graham Greene’s short story, co-adapted by Ealing’s only female resident writer, Diana Morgan, is almost supernatural in its telling – Cavalcanti, well known as a documentary filmmaker, was also schooled as a surrealist in Paris.
It’s a gripping tale that feels groundbreaking even today.
Went the Day Well? (1942)
In this adaptation of a Graham Greene story, women take on undercover Nazis with a variety of weapons.
- 1942 United Kingdom
- Directed by
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Produced by
- Michael Balcon
- Written by
- John Dighton, Diana Morgan, Angus MacPhail
- Featuring
- Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton
- Running time
- 92 minutes
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