Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
1h 17m
Running Time
November 6, 1951Release Date
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
1h 17m
Running Time
November 6, 1951Release Date
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Plot.
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Roger Livesey
Capt. Cedric Biddle
Honor Blackman
Meg Cuffley
Richard Burton
Robert 'Bob' Hammond
Frederick Leister
Col. Gill
John Salew
Herbert Finch
Colin Gordon
Roderick Fisherwick
Geoffrey Keen
Spencer Prudhoe
Cyril Smith
Hubert Hewitt
Eliot Makeham
James Urquhart
Jack McNaughton
Bailiff Sgt. Edgar Rigby
Vida Hope
Polly Bainbridge
Derek N. Twist
Director
Russell Waters
Joseph Bainbridge the farmer
Archie Duncan
Constable Pettigrew
Howard Clewes
Writer
Arnold Ridley
Tom Cuffley
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Details.
Wiki.
Green Grow the Rushes is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Derek N. Twist and starring Roger Livesey, Richard Burton and Honor Blackman. It was the first film to be released by ACT Films, an entity formed by a trade union for filmmakers. The film was produced by John Gossage and funded by the National Film Finance Corporation and the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Bank. It is an adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same title by Howard Clewes.
It was made at Elstree Studios near London with sets the designed by the art director Frederick Pusey. Location shooting took place on the coastal Romney Marsh around the town of New Romney.