| The Lost People | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | |
| Written by | Bridget Boland |
| Based on | Cockpit by Bridget Boland |
| Produced by | Gordon Wellesley |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jack Asher |
| Edited by | Gordon Hales |
| Music by | John Greenwood |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
Release date | 22 August 1949 |
Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £80,000 (by 1953)[1] |
The Lost People is a 1949 British drama film directed by Muriel Box and Bernard Knowles and starring Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling and Richard Attenborough.[2] It is based on the play Cockpit by Bridget Boland.[3] It was shot partly at Denham Studios outside London with sets designed by the art directors John Elphick and George Provis. The film's costumes were designed by Julie Harris.
Plot
After the Second World War, some British soldiers are guarding a theatre in Germany containing various refugees and prisoners trying to work out what to do with them. However, the displaced people, after uniting against fascism for five years, begin to disintegrate into their own ancient feuds: Serb against Croat, Pole against Russian, resistance fighter against collaborator and everyone against the Jews. Two people, Jan and Lily, begin a romance and decide to wed. However, one of the refugees is diagnosed with bubonic plague.[2]
Cast
- Dennis Price as Ridley
- Mai Zetterling as Lily
- Richard Attenborough as Jan
- Siobhán McKenna as Marie
- Maxwell Reed as Peter
- William Hartnell as Barnes
- Gerard Heinz as Professor
- Zena Marshall as Anna
- Olaf Pooley as Milosh
- Harcourt Williams as Priest
- Philo Hauser as Draja
- Jill Balcon as Rebecca
- Grey Blake as Saunders
- Marcel Poncin as Duval
- Nelly Arno as Old Woman in Box
- George Benson as Driver
- Peter Bull as Wolf
- Paul Hardtmuth as Jiri
- Tutte Lemkow as Jaroslav
- Pamela Stirling as Young Woman in Box
- Charles Hawtrey as Prisoner
- Herbert Lom as Guest
Production
Associate producer Alfred Roome called the film "terrible... we shot for ages, then it stopped and started again and got terribly boring... it actually had two or three directors who came and went."[4]
References
- ↑ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
- 1 2 "The Lost People". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ "The Lost People (1950) - Muriel Box,Bernard Knowles - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
- ↑ McFarlane, Brian (1997). An autobiography of British cinema : as told by the filmmakers and actors who made it. p. 499. ISBN 9780413705204.
Bibliography
- McFarlane, Brian . Four from the forties: Arliss, Crabtree, Knowles and Huntington. Manchester University Press, 2018.