Themes: Women During Wartime, Life on the Homefront
Main Cast: Eric Portman, Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Basil Radford, Joy Shelton
Release Year: 1943
Country: UK
Run Time: 103 minutes
Plot
Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays a worker in a defense plant who lives in an all-female rooming house. Shy and sheltered, Roc loses some of her inhibitions when she falls in love with an airman (Gordon Jackson). After they marry, he is killed in battle. Roc's coworkers and friends rally round her, giving her the strength to persevere. Millions Like Us attempts to show the temporary breakdown of the British class structure during the war, with everyone--highborn to low--pitching in, working together, and bolstering one another's morale. That the old social system would inevitably resume after the war wasn't important to British movie fans, who lined up in droves to see Millions Like Us. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Megs Jenkins - Gwen Price; Naunton Wayne - Caldicott; Terry Randall - Annie Earnshaw; Moore Marriott - Jim Crowson; John Boxer - Tom Crowson; Valentine Dunn - Elsie Crowson; Beatrice Varley - Miss Wells; Amy Veness - Mrs. Blythe; Irene Handl - Landlady; Grace Allardyce; Brenda Bruce; Clifford Cobbe; Hugh Cross; Amy Dalby; Paul Drake; John Salew - The Doctor; Avis Scott; John Slater; Frank Webster; Sidney Gilliat; Johnnie Schofield; Arthur Denton; Jonathan Field; Stanley Paskin; Jack Vyvyan; John Wynn; Gordon Edwards; Angela Foulds; Alan Haines; George Hirste; Barry Steele; Albert Chevalier
Credit
Sidney Gilliat - Director, Frank Launder - Director, R.E. Dearing - Editor, Jack Cox - Cinematographer, Roy Fogwell - Cinematographer, Edward Black - Producer, Sidney Gilliat - Screenwriter, Frank Launder - Screenwriter
When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.
