Tawny Pipit (1944)
1h 21m
Running Time
April 28, 1944Release Date
Plot.
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
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Cast & Crew.
Bernard Miles
Col. Barton-Barrington
Rosamund John
Hazel Broome
Niall MacGinnis
Jimmy Bancroft
Lucie Mannheim
Russian Sniper
Jean Gillie
Nancy Forester
Charles Saunders
Director
Christopher Steele
Reverend Kingsley
Brefni O'Rorke
Uncle Arthur
Noel Mewton-Wood
Composer
George Carney
Whimbrel
Eric Cross
Cinematographer
Douglas Myers
Editor
Wylie Watson
Crasker
Lyonel Watts
Silver
Scott Harrold
Shuttleworth
Arthur Burne
Hambling
John Salew
Pickering
Marjorie Rhodes
Mrs. Pickering
John Rae
McDougall
Ann Wilton
Miss Pennyman
Ernest Butcher
Tommy Fairchild
Grey Blake
Captain Dawson
Stuart Latham
Corporal Philpotts
Johnnie Schofield
Sergeant Dawkins
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Tawny Pipit is a British comedy film produced by Prestige Productions in 1944. It tells of how the residents of a small English village collaborate when the nest of a pair of rare tawny pipits is discovered there.
It is one of the first films to have a nature conservation theme: with one scene featuring a girl standing in front of a line of Covenanter tanks to prevent military training from disturbing the birds. Balanced against the conservation themes it also includes now-illegal practices, such as collecting rare bird eggs.
A secondary theme is criticism of government interference with farming practices, such as enforced ploughing, in areas where the farmers themselves generally know best.