The Foreman Went to France
The Foreman Went to France (released in the USA as Somewhere in France ) is a 1942 British Second World War war film starring Clifford Evans, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings and Gordon Jackson.
Plot
In 1940, Welsh armaments factory foreman Fred Carrick goes to France on his own initiative to retrieve three large pieces of machinery for making cannon for Spitfires before the German army arrives. In Bivary, he requests the aid of two soldiers and, more importantly, the use of their army lorry. He also gets the help of the company secretary in France, an American woman who needs to go north to find her sister, a nurse.
More details
| author | Angus MacPhail Diana Morgan John Dighton Leslie Arliss Roger MacDougall |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | France |
| director | Charles Frend |
| editor | Robert Hamer |
| events | World War II |
| keywords | entertain fifth column flee german army machine orphan town mayor |
| musicBy | William Walton |
| producer | Michael Balcon |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios |
| publisher | United Artists Ltd |
| theme | biographical war |