Go to Blazes (1942 film)

Go to Blazes
Directed byWalter Forde
Written byDiana Morgan
Angus MacPhail
Produced byMichael Balcon
StarringWill Hay
Thora Hird
Muriel George
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byLen Page
Release date
  • 1942 (1942)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Go to Blazes is a short 1942 British information film, produced by the Ministry of Information, directed by Walter Forde and starring Will Hay and Thora Hird.[1]

Synopsis[edit]

When an incendiary bomb strikes his house during the Blitz, Hay fusses so ineptly with his extinguishing equipment that the bomb burns through the floor – and obligingly falls into a bucket of water in the basement. When a second bomb strikes, his daughter shows him how to do the job properly.

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Reception[edit]

BFI Screenonline refers to it as a "wittily written information film."[2]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "GO BLAZES Main Title (COI 957)". Iwm.org.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  2. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Go to Blazes (1942)". Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2014.