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Trying to make topical lilms is a. tough job these days. History is mado far 100 rapidly.' It takes anything, from two to six months to make a. film. Countries can change handsfar more quickly. And a subject* that has topicality as its aim is in? danger of being "out-of-date even before the lilm-makers have completed it. Michael Balcon. production, head of Haling Studios provides evidence of this. He and history werer engaged in a neck-and-ncck race during the production of the new economic warfare film, "The Bigt Blockade - ' at tlic Regent Theatre orn Tuesday and Wednesday. It's up-tor the-minute. now. But associate producer Cavalcanti and director Char-— les Frend had to do seme cjiuc'c. thinking to make it .so. The iioni» was all ready for production when* the Nazis attacked Russia. The* blockade war took on a new sigji--ficanee —and "The Big Blockade"" went back to the script writers foral teration. The Russian angle wast given prominence, with Micliaeif Redgrave in the role of a Rtrssi&TO traveller.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 6, 14 September 1943, Page 5
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171ON THE SCREEN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 6, 14 September 1943, Page 5
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