Nine Men (film)
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| Directed by | Harry Watt |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Written by | Harry Watt (from short story by Gerald Kersh) |
| Starring | Jack Lambert Gordon Jackson Frederick Piper |
| Music by | John Greenwood |
| Cinematography | Roy Kellino |
| Edited by | Charles Crichton |
| Distributed by | Ealing Studios |
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Running time
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68 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Nine Men is a 1943 British patriotic war film. The film is an Ealing Studios production, which marked the first fiction film assignment for celebrated documentary film director Harry Watt. In common with many Ealing productions of the time, the film used a largely unknown cast, only a few of whom were full-time professional actors. The film is known to be actor Grant Sutherland's last performance before retiring from acting to pursue a career in business. Before Sutherland featured in such films as Michael Powell's The Edge of the World and The Spy in Black.
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Plot
Sergeant Jack Watson and the eight men under his command are travelling through the Libyan desert in an Allied convoy when their truck is destroyed by Italian forces, and they find themselves stranded as the convoy moves on without them. They take refuge in a semi-derelict desert fort, where they must hold out while being besieged by the Italians, with only a limited supply of ammunition and their own wits to help them survive.
Lacking a budget for large-scale battle scenes, Nine Men focuses tightly on psychological tension and the personal interactions between its nine protagonists.
Cast
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- Jack Lambert as Sergeant Jack Watson
- Gordon Jackson as Young'un
- Frederick Piper as 'Badger' Hill
- Grant Sutherland as Jock Scott
- Bill Blewett as Bill Parker
- Eric Micklewood as 'Bookie' Lee
- John Varley as 'Dusty' Johnstone
- Jack Horsman as Joe Harvey
- Richard Wilkinson as Lieutenant Crawford
- Giulio Finzi as Italian mechanic
- Fred Griffiths as Base sergeant
Location filming
The film's exterior desert sequences were shot on location at Margam Sands, Glamorgan.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Nine Men at IMDb
- Nine Men at AllMovie
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- 1943 films
- English-language films
- 1940s war films
- British films
- British war films
- Ealing Studios films
- World War II films
- World War II films made in wartime
- British black-and-white films
- Films directed by Harry Watt
- Films produced by Michael Balcon
- Films set in Libya
- Fictional nonets
- War film stubs
