The Lost People

The Lost People is a 1949 British drama film directed by Muriel Box and Bernard Knowles and starring Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling and Richard Attenborough.[2] It is based on the play Cockpit by Bridget Boland.[3] It was shot partly at Denham Studios outside London with sets designed by the art directors John Elphick and George Provis. The film's costumes were designed by Julie Harris.

The Lost People
British quad poster
Directed by
Written byBridget Boland
Based onCockpit by Bridget Boland
Produced byGordon Wellesley
Starring
CinematographyJack Asher
Edited byGordon Hales
Music byJohn Greenwood
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
22 August 1949
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£80,000 (by 1953)[1]

Plot

After the Second World War, some British soldiers are guarding a theatre in Germany containing various refugees and prisoners trying to work out what to do with them. However, the displaced people, after uniting against fascism for five years, begin to disintegrate into their own ancient feuds: Serb against Croat, Pole against Russian, resistance fighter against collaborator and everyone against the Jews. Two people, Jan and Lily, begin a romance and decide to wed. However, one of the refugees is diagnosed with bubonic plague.[2]

Cast

Production

Associate producer Alfred Roome called the film "terrible... we shot for ages, then it stopped and started again and got terribly boring... it actually had two or three directors who came and went."[4]

References
  1. Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
  2. "The Lost People". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  3. "The Lost People (1950) - Muriel Box,Bernard Knowles - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie".
  4. McFarlane, Brian (1997). An autobiography of British cinema : as told by the filmmakers and actors who made it. p. 499. ISBN 9780413705204.

Bibliography
  • McFarlane, Brian . Four from the forties: Arliss, Crabtree, Knowles and Huntington. Manchester University Press, 2018.
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