Painted Boats

Painted Boats (1945)

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

Date of release
1945-09-01
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 3m
Genres
Drama
Director
Charles Crichton

Casting

Interesting facts

Painted Boats is a British drama film directed by Charles Crichton and released by Ealing Studios in 1945. Painted Boats, one of the lesser-known Ealing films of the period, is brief, uses a little-known cast and has a slight storyline. It is however considered significant by waterways enthusiasts as a fictionalised documentary, providing a rare extensive filmic depiction of a long-gone way of life on England's working canal system in the 1940s. The narration was by Louis MacNeice, including some verse specially written to suit the onscreen action, most notably the sequence in which the narrow boat is being 'legged' through one of the tunnels.

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