Tell England (The Battle of Gallipoli). 1931. Directed by Anthony Asquith, Geoffrey Barkas

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Tell England (The Battle of Gallipoli). 1931. Great Britain. Directed by Anthony Asquith, Geoffrey Barkas. 88 min.

With Fay Compton, Tony Bruce, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey. This patriotic yet pacifist account of Winston Churchill’s failed effort to invade Turkey uses much actuality footage and is somewhat experimental in its use of sound. The film poignantly shows how schoolboys wound up leading battalions amid the insanity of trench warfare. Asquith was the son of Herbert Asquith, the British prime minister at the outbreak of the war who approved the invasion. Barkas had been a soldier in the campaign.

This film accompanies The Great War: A Cinematic Legacy.

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