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Go to Blazes (1942 film)

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Director
  
Walter Forde

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

Writer
  
Diana Morgan
,
Angus MacPhail

Release date
  
1942

Go to blazes 50th anniversary opening scene


Go to Blazes is a short 1942 British information film, produced by the Ministry of Information, directed by Walter Forde and starring Will Hay and Thora Hird.

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Will hay go to blazes short


Synopsis

When an incendiary bomb strikes his house during the Blitz, Hay fusses so ineptly with his extinguishing equipment that the bomb burns through the floor - and obligingly falls into a bucket of water in the basement. When a second bomb strikes, his daughter shows him how to do the job properly.

Cast

  • Will Hay - Father
  • Thora Hird - Elsie
  • Muriel George - Mother
  • Reception

    BFI Screenonline refers to it as a "wittily written information film."

    References

    Go to Blazes (1942 film) Wikipedia
    Go to Blazes (1942 film) IMDb Go to Blazes (1942 film) themoviedb.org