sonia

I am doing research on Noel Mewton-Wood, the pianist who composed the film score for 'Tawny Pipit' (1944). Can anyone tell me anything about this film / film score? Background, gossip, reviews? Thanks.

Rob Compton

Tawny Pipit is a wonderful film, filmed on location in the Cotswolds with much exterior filming. If you look closely when the two main characters emerge from the village pub, the sign says "Garnes Ales" which shows it was filmed near Burford, Oxfordshire (near where I live!). Garnes Brewery no longer exists I'm afraid.

I think the location was Lower or Great Slaughter (yes that's what the village is called!)

One of my (many!) favourites starring the delectable Rosamund John!
Regards
Rob

French Lieutenant

With reference to Rob Crompton's reply, there are actually two villages and they are called Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter

Rob Compton

Yes, sorry, my sentence was not as clear as it could have been! Both villages are very pretty, typical Cotswold scenery, and one can well imagine the location manager's enthusiasm.

regards
Rob

Bob C

Sonia,

Ceratinly can. My mother was in the Land Army, and was one of the extras in the film. There is also a scene where Ms Gillies is milking a cow. But you only see her hands, or rather my mothers hands. There is alos a long shot of tMs Gillies on hay rick. That agioan was my mother! My father was also "recruited" as an extra since he was home from the Navy, and can be seen in uniform in some of the crowd scenes.

Anything else?

Regards

Barrie Smith

My Dad worked on the Tawny Pipit , Producer, he really enjoyed making it and the people he met in the Cotswolds, he often talked of a farmer and his family call Gibbard, (Pop) they were very friendly to my Dad, often helped with eggs which were hard to come by in the war.
There are some still around of the film and Rosamund John
see:
http://www.frenchpix.com/earlydays.html
this is the memorial site of Herbert Smith
producer of Tawny Pipit,
hope this helps. I liked what Rob Compton .

Barrie Smith
Photographer

plasticjock

Bit late, I know............

mark windley

hi all
ok all you millitary buffs what is this . 1944 . film like . worth watching ?......

for thow . will be ours some day , we shall have it all
, and more .

Arthur Linden-Jones

yes.one.of.the.home.front.moral.boosters.from.WW2. Corny.but.very.patriotic.and.watchable.

This is war Wilson, not Sainsburys!

stevie boy

excellent film, go watch it and enjoy

Steve Crook

Definitely worth watching. But not much to do with the military though, despite the appearance of a female Russian sniper

Steve

Nick Dando

Well, you do get Johnny Schofield in a Covenanter tank, being lectured by Rosamund John for driving across the countryside, endangering the titular birds.

Nick

mark windley

well i did read somethink about the film beaing set in ww2 .. or the war years
...

for thow . will be ours some day , we shall have it all
, and more .

Blanche Fury

My main memories of the film are that it is well worth watching, though the role Bernard Miles (as, I think, co-writer and -director) gave himself, a crusty old military man, doesn't really suit him at all. And that he, as someone on the left politically, must have taken great pleasure in the scene where the church choir sing the Internationale!

stevie boy

the locations are still the same all these years later,including the mill. Lovely film