The Lost People
The Lost People | |
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Directed by | |
Written by | Bridget Boland |
Based on | Cockpit a play 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 (UK) |
Release date | 22 August 1949 (UK) |
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 a play by Bridget Boland.[3]
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 ... Ridley
- Mai Zetterling ... Lily
- Richard Attenborough ... Jan
- Siobhán McKenna ... Marie
- Maxwell Reed ... Peter
- William Hartnell ... Barnes
- Gerard Heinz ... Professor
- Zena Marshall ... Anna
- Olaf Pooley ... Milosh
- Harcourt Williams ... Priest
- ... Draja
- Jill Balcon ... Rebecca
- Grey Blake ... Saunders
- ... Duval
- Nelly Arno ... Old Woman in Box
- George Benson ... Driver
- Peter Bull ... Wolf
- Paul Hardtmuth ... Jiri
- Tutte Lemkow ... Jaroslav
- ... Young Woman in Box
- Charles Hawtrey ... Prisoner
- Herbert Lom ...Guest
References[]
- ^ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
- ^ a b "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".
External links[]
Categories:
- English-language films
- 1949 films
- British films
- 1949 drama films
- Films directed by Muriel Box
- British drama films
- Films set in Germany
- Films set in a theatre
- British black-and-white films
- British films based on plays
- 1940s British film stubs