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	\| image = Give Us the Moon.jpg		\| image = Give Us the Moon.jpg
	\| caption = ~~Original British film poster~~		\| caption =
	\| director = [[Val Guest]]		\| director = [[Val Guest]]
	\| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)\|Edward Black]]		\| producer = [[w:Edward Black (producer)\|Edward Black]]
	\| screenplay = Val Guest		\| screenplay = Val Guest
	\| based_on = {{based on\|''[[The Elephant is White]]''\|[[Caryl Brahms]] & [[S.J. Simon]]}}		\| based_on = {{based on\|''[[w:The Elephant is White\|The Elephant is White]]''\|[[w:Caryl Brahms\|Caryl Brahms]] & [[w:S.J. Simon\|S.J. Simon]]}}
	\| starring = [[Margaret Lockwood]]<br/>[[Vic Oliver]]<br/>[[Roland Culver]]<br/>[[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves\|Peter Graves]]<br/>[[Jean Simmons]]		\| starring = [[Margaret Lockwood]]<br/>[[Vic Oliver]]<br/>[[Roland Culver]]<br/>[[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves\|Peter Graves]]<br/>[[Jean Simmons]]
	\| music = [[Bob Busby]]		\| music = [[w:Bob Busby\|Bob Busby]]
	\| cinematography = [[Phil Grindrod]]		\| cinematography = [[w:Phil Grindrod\|Phil Grindrod]]
	\| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]]		\| editing = [[w:R. E. Dearing\|R. E. Dearing]]
	\| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]		\| studio = [[w:Gainsborough Pictures\|Gainsborough Pictures]]
	\| distributor = [[General Film Distributors\|GDF]] (UK)		\| distributor = [[w:General Film Distributors\|GDF]] (UK)
	\| released = {{Film date\|df=y\|1944\|07\|31\|UK}}		\| released = {{Film date\|df=y\|1944\|07\|31\|UK}}
	\| runtime = 95 minutes		\| runtime = 95 minutes
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	'''''Give Us the Moon''''' is a 1944 British [[comedy film]] directed and written by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Vic Oliver]], [[Margaret Lockwood]] and [[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves\|Peter Graves]].<ref>{{tcmdb title\|id=76458\|title=Give Us the Moon}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|last1=Erickson\|first1=Hal\|title=Give Us the Moon (1944)\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93274/Give-Us-the-Moon/overview\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730222754/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93274/Give-Us-the-Moon/overview\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=30 July 2015\|department=Movies & TV Dept.\|work=[[The New York Times]]\|publisher=[[Baseline (database)\|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]\|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)\|date=2015\|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref>		'''''Give Us the Moon''''' is a 1944 British [[w:comedy film\|comedy film]] directed and written by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Vic Oliver]], [[Margaret Lockwood]] and [[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves\|Peter Graves]].<ref>{{tcmdb title\|id=76458\|title=Give Us the Moon}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|last1=Erickson\|first1=Hal\|title=Give Us the Moon (1944)\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93274/Give-Us-the-Moon/overview\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730222754/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93274/Give-Us-the-Moon/overview\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=30 July 2015\|department=Movies & TV Dept.\|work=[[The New York Times]]\|publisher=[[Baseline (database)\|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]\|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)\|date=2015\|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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	\| image = ~~Giveusthemoonposter~~.jpg		\| image = Give Us the Moon.jpg
	\| caption = Original British film poster		\| caption = Original British film poster
	\| director = [[Val Guest]]		\| director = [[Val Guest]]

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{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Give Us the Moon
| image = Giveusthemoonposter.jpg
| caption = Original British film poster
| director = [[Val Guest]]
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| screenplay = Val Guest
| based_on = {{based on|''[[The Elephant is White]]''|[[Caryl Brahms]] & [[S.J. Simon]]}}
| starring = [[Margaret Lockwood]]<br/>[[Vic Oliver]]<br/>[[Roland Culver]]<br/>[[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves|Peter Graves]]<br/>[[Jean Simmons]]
| music = [[Bob Busby]]
| cinematography = [[Phil Grindrod]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]]
| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors|GDF]] (UK)
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1944|07|31|UK}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''Give Us the Moon''''' is a 1944 British [[comedy film]] directed and written by [[Val Guest]] and starring [[Vic Oliver]], [[Margaret Lockwood]] and [[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves|Peter Graves]].<ref>{{tcmdb title|id=76458|title=Give Us the Moon}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Erickson|first1=Hal|title=Give Us the Moon (1944)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93274/Give-Us-the-Moon/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730222754/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93274/Give-Us-the-Moon/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 July 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2015|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref>

==Plot==
Made in 1943-44, the film is set in a future peacetime Britain, after the end of [[World War II]]. Peter Pyke, the son of a millionaire hotel owner, had been a [[RAF]] pilot during the war but, much to the frustration of his hard-working father, he does not want to work for a living, and idles his time away while living in his father's hotel (named "[[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] Hotel"). So when Peter stumbles across a group of people, mainly [[White émigré|White Russian émigrés]] who call themselves “White Elephants” and refuse to work or be of any use to society, he eagerly accepts their invitation to join them.

==Cast==
*[[Margaret Lockwood]] as Nina
*[[Vic Oliver]] as Sascha
*[[Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves|Peter Graves]] as Peter
*[[Roland Culver]] as Ferdinand
*[[Frank Cellier (actor)|Frank Cellier]] as Pyke
*[[Eliot Makeham]] as Lunka
*[[George Relph]] as Otto
*[[Max Bacon (actor)|Max Bacon]] as Jacobus
*[[Alan Keith]] as Raphael
*[[Jean Simmons]] as Heidi
*[[John Salew]] as Landlord
*Iris Lang as Tania
*[[Gibb McLaughlin]] as Marcel
*[[Irene Handl]] as Miss Haddock

==Production and release==
The film is based on the 1939 novel ''[[The Elephant is White]]'', written by [[Caryl Brahms]] and her Russian émigré writing partner [[S. J. Simon]], but the story was moved from Paris in the 1930s to London in the late 1940s. Brahms and Simon provided additional dialogue to director [[Val Guest]]'s screenplay.

The film opened at the [[New Gallery (London)|New Gallery]] cinema in London on 31 July 1944, less than two months after [[D-Day]] and almost a year before [[End of World War II in Europe|the war would end in Europe]]. Film reviewers at the time were not very impressed - ''[[The Times]]'' reviewer found it to be "''a film which opens well [but] ends not with the bang of vigorous cinematic invention but the whimper of overworked dialogue''."<ref>[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=kenlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS135347967&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 The Times, 31 July 1944, page 8: ''New Films In London''] Linked 2017-05-12</ref> - but more recently the film has been described by one reviewer as "''one of the most delightful comedies ever made''".<ref>[https://thewonderfulworldofcinema.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/oh-but-you-must-see-give-us-the-moon/ The Wonderful World of Cinema, May 19, 2016: ''Oh! But You MUST See “Give Us the Moon”!''] Linked 2017-05-12</ref> [[Phil Hardy (journalist)|Phil Hardy]]'s ''[[The Aurum Film Encyclopedia]]'' classed the film as a utopian [[science fiction]] film but also claimed that "Vic Olivier" was the hotelier.

Lockwood had just become a star with ''[[The Man in Grey]]'' but did not want to be typecast as a villainess.<ref name="vagg">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=Why Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood|date=January 29, 2020|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/stars-stop-stars-margaret-lockwood/}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0035945}}
*[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76458/Give-Us-the-Moon/ ''Give Us the Moon''] at [[TCMDB]]
{{Val Guest}}
{{Gainsborough Pictures}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Val Guest]]
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