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Green Grow the Rushes is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Derek N. Twist with Roger Livesey
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
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Add to a movie listGreen Grow the Rushes (1951) is a British comedy film and the first film to be released by ACT Films Ltd. The film was produced by John Gossage and funded by the National Film Finance Corporation and the Co-operative Wholesale Society Bank.
Synopsis
Three British government bureaucrats arrive in Kent to inquire as to why the coastal Anderida marsh is not being cultivated. The reason is that most of the local people know about or are involved in the liquor smuggling scheme operated by Captain Biddle and his accomplice Robert (Richard Burton), who is posing as a fisherman when he is seen by the newspaper editor and his journalist daughter Meg.Actors
Roger Livesey
(Capt. Cedric Biddle)
Richard Burton
(Robert 'Bob' Hammond)
Honor Blackman
(Meg Cuffley)
Frederick Leister
(Col. Gill)
Arnold Ridley
(Tom Cuffley)
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