Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
- world war ii
- home front
- seaside town
- 1940s
- home guard
- based on tv series
The bill
Arthur Lowe
Captain George Mainwaring
John Le Mesurier
Sergeant Arthur Wilson
Clive Dunn
Lance Corporal Jack Jones
John Laurie
Private James Frazer
- James Beck — Private Joe Walker
- Arnold Ridley — Private Charles Godfrey
- Ian Lavender — Private Frank Pike
- Liz Fraser — Mrs. Mavis Pike
- Bernard Archard — Major General Fullard
- Derek Newark — Sergeant Major Dawkins
- Bill Pertwee — A.R.P. Warden Hodges
- Frank Williams — Reverend Timothy Farthing
- Edward Sinclair — Verger Henry Yeatman
- Anthony Sagar — Police Sergeant
- Pat Coombs — Mrs. Hall
- Directed
- Norman Cohen
- Written
- David Croft, Jimmy Perry
Production
- Rating
- 5.0 / 10 · 91 ratings
- Studio
- Norcon
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