The Lost People

The Lost People (1949)

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

Date of release
1949-08-22
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Muriel Box, Bernard Knowles

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Cockpit

The Lost People, also known as Cockpit, is a 1949 British drama film directed by Muriel Box and Bernard Knowles and starring Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling and Richard Attenborough. It was written by Bridget Boland based on her 1948 play Cockpit.

Production

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.

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."

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