British paratroopers arrive in a small English town during World War II, they are actually German saboteurs who are a vanguard for the Nazi invasion of Britain.
What we have here in Went The Day Well? is nothing less than the plot to Die Hard which came out 46 years later. This film sets up a nightmarish situation for ordinary small town British citizens and spins it into a very effective thriller.
The film was produced by Ealing Studios who built their reputation on gentle comedies about English life like, The Lavender Hill Mob or The Man in the White Suit. This film is extremely well directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and has some very clever Hitchcock like suspense situations as the British hostages try to escape from the Nazi saboteurs.
The film takes the traditional British stereotype of the lovable eccentric small town population and proceeds to really twist it around. An impressive film in the war propaganda genre.
92 minutes.
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