Yellow Canary, The

Synopsis
Feature film. Anna Neagle is a supposed Nazi sympathiser who is really British to the core and helps foil a German plot to blow up a harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film opens with two British air-raid wardens discussing the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy. One of them ties Shakespeare to the Blitz by quoting the lines from The Tempest beginning ‘be not afeared, the isle is full of noises’ (III ii).
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Medium
Film
Technical information
Black-and-white / Sound
Year of release
1943
Duration
98 mins; 8,815 feet

Credits

Director
Herbert Wilcox
Producer
Herbert Wilcox
Cinematographer
Mutz Greenbaum
Screenplay
Miles Malleson
Music
Clifford Parker
Cast
Anna NeagleSally Maitland
Richard GreeneJim Garrick

Additional Details

Production type
Fiction Films
Plays
Tempest, The
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Authorship

Notes

Reviews
`The impossibility of being fooled even for a moment by the central premise kills a dreary film’ (McKernan & Terris, Walking Shadows: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive. (London:bfi, 1994). p163.

Production Company

Name

Imperator

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

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Address
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Shakespeare, "Yellow Canary, The". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av36903 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)