Meet you at Film Forum for high tea and artillery! The 1942 British thriller Went the Day Well?, based on a story by Graham Greene, has a premise so irresistible that you wonder how it's never been remade. Into a cozy English village rolls a squadron of Nazis masquerading as British soldiers, the linchpin of a looming invasion. Slowly, the more-alert townspeople notice the soldiers' ill manners, the Continental way they cross their sevens, the Viennese chocolate in their rucksacks. Quietly, they bring out the shotguns and axes ... But will they get wise to the collaborator in their midst? Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, this is rousting vigilantism wedded to small-town conservative values—and low-key Ealing Studio aesthetics.
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