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The Windmill is a British film of genre Drama directed by Arthur B. Woods with Hugh Williams

The Windmill (1937)

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Genres Drama

The Windmill is a 1937 British drama film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Hugh Williams, Glen Alyn and Henry Mollison. During the First World War, the German adopted daughter of a Belgian innkeeper tries to balance her loyalty to her father, who is a spy for the Germans, and her love for a British soldier billited in their inn. It was based on a novel by John Drabble.

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Hugh Williams

(Lt Peter Ellington)Glen Alyn

(Clodine Asticot)Henry Mollison

(Gaston Lafarge)John Laurie

(M. Coutard)Bruce Lester

(Officer)
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