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Director John Krish | 6.7/10 IMDb Produced by Gordon Scott Music by Robert Farnon Screenplay John Krish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Based on Friend or Foeby Michael Morpurgo Starring John BardonStacey TendeterJohn Holmes Initial release April 1982 (United Kingdom) Cast Similar Glitterball, The Boy Who Turned Y, Decline and Fall of a Birdw, The Wild Affair, The Elephant Will Neve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Friend or Foe is a 1982 British independent film that was directed by John Krish for the Children's Film Foundation. The film, which was given a theatrical release in April 1982, is based on the 1977 children's novel by the same name by Michael Morpurgo. It stars John Bardon, Stacy Tendeter, and John Holmes and concerns two young boys who are evacuated from London during World War II.
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Friend or Foe was later shown as part of a theatrical retrospective of Krish's work in 2013 and was also screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2014.
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Plot
Two young boys, played by John Holmes and Mark Luxford, arrive from London to the countryside by train: they are evacuees from the Blitz. Arriving in an unfamiliar village, they are taken in by a kindly dairy farmer, and soon become familiar with country life. Between lending a hand on the farm and attending the one-room village school, they spend their days exploring the fields and woods of the area, and thoroughly enjoying themselves. Then one night, there is a bombing raid near the village and the boys witness a German bomber come down. They try to tell the locals, but a search finds no evidence of a downed plane, and the boys are in trouble for wasting the police and the armed services’ time (the plane had actually come down in the local pond and sunk out of sight).
The boys encounter two German airmen hiding in the woods who are the only ones to have survived the crash. One of them saves one of the boys from drowning in the pond. The airmen both speak English and let the boys go, but ask them not to tell. The boys have a crisis of conscience as a result, but eventually decide to protect the Germans. When one of the airmen injures himself, he lets the boys and lets them 'capture' him, as he needs medical attention. The boys then become local heroes. However, there is one more German airman still in the woods, and the dilemma remains.
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Reception
Critical reception for Friend or Foe was positive. Variety rated the movie favorably, writing "It's more evidence that the Children's Film Foundation is presently moving toward front position in this difficult genre on the world scene."