An Englishman's Home (film)

An Englishman's Home is a 1940 British drama film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Edmund Gwenn, Mary Maguire and Paul Henreid. It is an adaptation of the 1909 play An Englishman's Home by Guy du Maurier.[1] It was filmed at Denham Studios outside London with production commencing in May 1939.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. It was picked up for distribution in the United States by Columbia Pictures who released it in June 1940 under the alternative title Mad Men of Europe.[3]

An Englishman's Home
Directed byAlbert de Courville
Written byRodney Ackland
Ian Hay
Edward Knoblock
Dennis Wheatley
Based onAn Englishman's Home by Guy du Maurier
Produced byNeville E. Neville
StarringEdmund Gwenn
Mary Maguire
Paul Henreid
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Cyril J. Knowles
Edited byLister Laurance
Music byLouis Levy
Production
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Aldwych Films
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • 27 January 1940 (1940-01-27)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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References

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  1. ^ Goble p.750
  2. ^ Wood p.100
  3. ^ Shull & Wilt p.147

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Shull, Michael S. & Wilt, David Edward. Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945: An Exhaustive Filmography of American Feature-Length Motion Pictures Relating to World War II. McFarland, 2015.
  • Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986.
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