It was hot enough to watch the 'bloodless battle of the underground', as written by Tibby Clarke (earning him an Oscar nomination - Battleground won). We always watch it in July.
It has a cheeky undercurrent, for example in the scene where the public are throwing food and gifts over the wire, a guy nicks some cigarettes from his neighbour's pocket and throws them over.
'I hope so. Haven't had a decent feed since that last deadlock in Moscow'.
By 1949 bread, petrol and clothing were no longer rationed, but the rest continued until 1954. 'Much of the film was shot on an outdoor set built on a cleared bomb-site off the Lambeth Road.' George Perry's unenlightening Ealing book fails to mention how the film was received by critics or the public.
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