Tell England (1931)

Directed by

Geoffrey Barkas, Anthony Asquith

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young friends join the British army during World War I and fight in the Gallipoli campaign. The film follows their experiences as soldiers in a brutal and costly battle.

patrioticpoignantstatelygrittysombercerebralmeasured

What happens

Tell England is a 1931 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and Geoffrey Barkas and starring Fay Compton, Tony Bruce and Carl Harbord. It is based on the 1922 novel Tell England by Ernest Raymond which featured two young men joining the army, and taking part in the fighting at Gallipoli. Both directors had close memories of Gallipoli, as did Fay Compton's brother, Compton Mackenzie. Asquith's father H. H. Asquith had been Prime Minister at the time of the Gallipoli Landings, a fact which drew press attention to the film, while Barkas had fought at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign. In the United States it was released under the alternative title The Battle of Gallipoli. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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