Uncensored (1942)

Directed by

Anthony Asquith

Genre

war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In occupied Belgium during World War II, a group of resistance fighters publishes an underground newspaper to counter Nazi propaganda. The German occupiers are shown as clumsy and easy to fool.

patrioticlighthearteddatedcheerfulunrealisticoptimisticfast-paced

What happens

Uncensored is a 1942 British war drama film directed by Anthony Asquith starring Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert and Griffith Jones. The film was produced at Gainsborough Pictures by Edward Black, with cinematography from Arthur Crabtree and screenplay by Rodney Ackland, Wolfgang Wilhelm and Terence Rattigan based on the 1937 novel of the same title by Oscar Millard. The film was shot at the company's Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush, with sets designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. Uncensored is set in occupied Belgium and shares the propagandistic tone of many British films of its era. While its reception was mainly positive, it was criticised in some quarters for its unrealistic portrayal of the occupying German forces as bungling, incompetent and easily outwitted buffoons. On its original UK release Uncensored ran for 108 minutes; for overseas distribution, however, it was trimmed to 83 minutes and the cut version subsequently became more widely circulated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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