Lot Essay
Johnny Frenchman, Ealing Studios, 1945 directed by Charles Frend, written by T.E.B. Clarke. The film shot in the Cornish fishing village of Mevagissey, disguised as Brittany, told the story of rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fishing communities which prevented the course of true love from running smoothly. As Charles Barr notes, the film's initial message: 'English and French were'nt never meant to mix' - gives way to inter-marriage and the affirmation by the same speaker that 'we are all just people'...the logical extension of Ealing's vision of a benevolent community..