Home Guard

Synopsis

A recruitment film for the Home Guard. (`It might make Hitler think twice’). A Home Guard officer in a village pub talks to his friends about his week at a Home Guard training school. He describes the training and concludes by getting out his notebook and quoting from Philip the Bastard’s speech in King John (V vii)`This England never did, nor never shall,/Lie at the proud foot of a conquerer,/But when it first did help to wound itself,/Nought remains to rue if England to herself remains but true’. ("Oi reckon that’s about right too). Note: Some lines are omitted and misquoted. [Synopsis compiled with acknowledgement to the cataloguers at the Imperial War Museum, Film and Television Archive].

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Sound

Year of release

1941

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Home Guard; national identity

Credits

Director

Donald Taylor

Producer

Donald Taylor

Cinematographer

Charles Marlborough

Writer

Bernard Miles

Production Company

Name

Strand

Sponsor

Name

Ministry of Information

Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum, Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

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Phone

020 7416 5293

Fax

020 7416 8299

Address

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