Guilt tripped by the British film establishment into contributing to the Allied war effort during World War II, Hitchcock returned to England and directed a couple of propaganda shorts, one of them called Bon Voyage was released in 1944.
It's a short film at 26 minutes and it plays like an episode of an Alfred Hitchcock presents TV show. The story is about an RAF officer escaping with another prisoner through France with the help of the French Resistance.
The film doesn't have very many Hitchcock touches and Hitchcock appeared to be working with a very small budget.
No undiscovered masterpiece here and probably not worth the viewer's time, for Hitchcock completists only I guess. Watch Foreign Correspondent instead.
Written by Angus MacPhail and J.O.C. Orton.
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