The Volunteer (1944)
January 10, 1944Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.

Currently The Volunteer is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Criterion Channel
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.

Ralph Richardson
Self - Narrator

Pat McGrath
Fred Davey

Anna Neagle
Self

Pat McGrath
Fred Davey

Laurence Olivier
Self

Michael Powell
Self / Writer / Director / Producer

Herbert Wilcox
Self

Tommy Woodrooffe
Self
Media.

Details.
Release DateJanuary 10, 1944
StatusReleased
Running Time44m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Volunteer (1944) is a short black-and-white British film by the filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for the U.K. Ministry of Information. Made during World War II as recruitment propaganda for the Fleet Air Arm, volunteer numbers rose after its release.
The films features actor Ralph Richardson starring in a West End production of Othello. Pat McGrath plays his dresser, who joins the Fleet Air Arm and becomes a war hero – as famous as Richardson himself. British film stars Anna Neagle and Laurence Olivier make cameo appearances, as does director Michael Powell and fellow British film director Anthony Asquith.
This film was one of a highly-regarded series of war-time film collaborations between Powell and Pressburger - together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company - which also included The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
The film is available as a supplement to The Criterion Collection DVD of the 1941 Powell and Pressburger film 49th Parallel and on the BFI 2021 blu-ray edition of the 1942 Powell and Pressburger film One of Our Aircraft is Missing.
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