Schweik's New Adventures (also known as It Started at Midnight) is a 1943 British comedy film, directed by Karel Lamač and starring Lloyd Pearson, Maggie Rennie, Richard Attenborough and Julien Mitchell.BFI.orgMurphy p.300 It was adapted from a novel by Jaroslav Hašek. The music was by Clifton Parker, his first film score.Huntley, John. British Film Music (1947), pp. 218-19 It was shot at the Merton Park Studios in London.
Plot
Cast Lloyd Pearson as Josef Schweik Maggie Rennie as Madame Lidia Karová Richard Attenborough as Railway worker Julien Mitchell as Gestapo Chief George Carney as Gendarme Muriel George as Mrs. Millerová Anthony Holles as Opera manager Eliot Makeham as Professor Jan Borski Jan Masaryk as Narrator
References
Bibliography Murphy, Robert. British Cinema and the Second World War. A&C Black, 2005.
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