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Johnny Frenchman is a British film of genre Drama directed by Charles Frend with Patricia Roc
Johnny Frenchman (1945)
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Add to a movie listJohnny Frenchman is a 1945 British film produced by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend. The film was produced by Michael Balcon from a screenplay by T.E.B. Clarke, with cinematography by Roy Kellino.
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The film is set between March 1939 and June 1940 in a small fishing port in Cornwall, whose inhabitants have a historic but largely benign rivalry with their counterparts from another port over the water in Brittany whose men fish the same grounds. Legally the French may not fish within three miles of the British coast, and vice versa, and alleged breaches of this rule are the cause of frequent spats between hot-headed Cornish harbour-master Nat Pomeroy (Tom Walls) and Lanec Florrie (Françoise Rosay), an equally redoubtable widow from the Breton port. Beneath all the bluster and posturing however, there is a mutual understanding and respect between the two communities.Actors
Patricia Roc
(Sue Pomeroy)
Tom Walls
(Net Pomeroy)
Françoise Rosay
(Lanec Florrie)
Paul Dupuis
(Yan Kervarec)
Ralph Michael
(Bob Tremayne)
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