Tawny Pipit

Tawny Pipit

81 mins | Drama | April 28, 1944

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.

Tawny Pipit

81 mins | Drama | April 28, 1944

Tawny Pipit
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Two Cities Films
Original title Tawny Pipit
Directors Charles Saunders, Bernard Miles
Writers Charles Saunders, Bernard Miles

Cast

Bernard Miles

as Colonel Barton-Barrington

Rosamund John

as Hazel Broome

Niall MacGinnis

as Jimmy Bancroft

Jean Gillie

as Nancy Forester

Lucie Mannheim

as Russian Sniper

Christopher Steele

as Reverend Kingsley

Brefni O'Rorke

as Uncle Arthur

George Carney

as Whimbrel

Wylie Watson

as Crasker

Lyonel Watts

as Silver

Scott Harrold

as Shuttleworth

Arthur Burne

as Hambling

John Salew

as Pickering

Marjorie Rhodes

as Mrs. Pickering

John Rae

as McDougall

Ann Wilton

as Miss Pennyman

Ernest Butcher

as Tommy Fairchild

Grey Blake

as Captain Dawson

Stuart Latham

as Corporal Philpotts

Johnnie Schofield

as Sergeant Dawkins

Ian Fleming

as Schoolmaster

Katie Johnson

as Miss Pyman

Sam Wilkinson

as Commissionaire

David Keir

as Professor

Sydney Benson

as President of A.B.O.

Vida Hope

as Railway Porter (uncredited)

Gordon McLeod

as Phillipson (uncredited)