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Unpublished Story (1942)

Unpublished Story poster
Directed by
Harold French
Genre
drama film, war film, propaganda film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A journalist tries to report the truth during wartime but his stories keep getting blocked by government censors. Meanwhile, a group pretending to support peace is actually working for the Nazis.

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What happens

Unpublished Story is a 1942 British black-and-white war film directed by Harold French and starring Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson. It was produced and co-written by Anthony Havelock-Allan. The film served as a propaganda film during World War II. The film has two main plots. The first one involves a journalist whose stories are repeatedly censored by the Ministry of Information. The second one involves a pacifist organisation, whose members are actually agents of Nazi Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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