Tawny Pipit
Tawny Pipit
Release: 1944-04-28
·Runtime: 81m
·★ 6.2
Drama
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Two Cities Films
Cast
Vida Hope
as Railway Porter (uncredited)
Gordon McLeod
as Phillipson (uncredited)
George Carney
as Whimbrel
Wylie Watson
as Crasker
Bernard Miles
as Colonel Barton-Barrington
Rosamund John
as Hazel Broome
Niall MacGinnis
as Jimmy Bancroft
Ernest Butcher
as Tommy Fairchild
Grey Blake
as Captain Dawson
Stuart Latham
as Corporal Philpotts
Katie Johnson
as Miss Pyman
Marjorie Rhodes
as Mrs. Pickering
Ian Fleming
as Schoolmaster
Jean Gillie
as Nancy Forester
Lucie Mannheim
as Russian Sniper
Brefni O'Rorke
as Uncle Arthur
John Salew
as Pickering
Johnnie Schofield
as Sergeant Dawkins