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Sports Day (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Sports Day' is a 1945 short film directed by Francis Searle for Gaumont-British Instructional.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120711234629/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b69b819c6 bfi.org.uk] It features early appearances of Jean Simmons and Peter Jeffrey.
Premise
A schoolboy almost misses the school sports day when he is wrongly punished for cruelty to a dog.
Cast
*Jean Simmons as Peggy
*Peter Jeffrey as Tom
*Roy Russell as Col. House
*Ernest Borrow as Headmaster
*David Anthony as Bill
Notes
Francis Searle, the director, worked with Gaumont-British Screen Services and Gaumont-British Instructional for seven years. Interviewed in 1995, he explained the situation when the Second World War broke out. "We were put on the reserved list and seconded to the Army , Navy and Air Force for training films , in conjunction with the MoI we made films like 'Citizens Advice Bureau', and 'Sam Pepys joins the Navy', 'Hospital Nurse'. " In the interview he describes how he came to work with Jean Simmons.
I also worked at Merton Park with Jean Simmons, who I cast in a short picture. Mary Field and Bruce Woolf were the bosses at GBI. (Gaumont-British Instructional). Mary Field did children's films and she had a film she offered to me ('Sports Day', 1945). Aida Foster, who was a big agent for juveniles, set up an audition and Jean, aged about fourteen, came on as bright as a button; she had learned the part and that was it. I didn't bother looking at any of the others.'Brian Macfarlane, Autobiography of British Cinema, p.525
References
Category:1945 films
Category:British black-and-white films
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