Schweik's New Adventures

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Schweik's New Adventures
Directed by	Karel Lamač
Written by	Karel Lamac Con West
Produced by	Walter Sors Edward G. Whiting
Starring	Lloyd Pearson Richard Attenborough Julien Mitchell
Cinematography	Robert LaPresle Billie Williams
Music by	Clifton Parker
Production company	Eden Films
Distributed by	Coronel Pictures
Release date	18 October 1943 (1943-10-18)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Schweik's New Adventures (also known as It Started at Midnight) is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Karel Lamač and starring Lloyd Pearson, Maggie Rennie, Richard Attenborough and Julien Mitchell.^[1] ^[2] It was adapted from a novel by Jaroslav Hašek. The music was by Clifton Parker, his first film score.^[3] It was shot at the Merton Park Studios in London.

Partial cast

Lloyd Pearson as Josef Schweik
Maggie Rennie as Madame Lidia Karová
Richard Attenborough as Railway worker
Julien Mitchell as Gestapo Chief
George Carney as Gendarme
Muriel George as Mrs. Millerová
Anthony Holles as Opera manager
Eliot Makeham as Professor Jan Borski
Jan Masaryk as Narrator

References

^ BFI.org
^ Murphy p.300
^ Huntley, John. British Film Music (1947), pp. 218-19

Bibliography

Murphy, Robert. British Cinema and the Second World War. A&C Black, 2005.

External links

Schweik's New Adventures at IMDb

v t e Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk (1923)
Films	The Good Soldier Schweik (1926) Schweik in Civilian Life (1927) The Good Soldier Schweik (1931) Schweik's New Adventures (1943) The Good Soldier Schweik (1955) The Good Soldier Schweik (1956) I Dutifully Report (1957) The Good Soldier Schweik (1960) Schweik's Awkward Years (1964) The Good Soldier Schwejk (2018)
Other	Schweik in the Second World War (1943 play) The Good Soldier Schweik (1958 opera) Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk (1972–1974 TV series)

Films directed by Karel Lamač

Gilly in Prague for the First Time (1920)
White Paradise (1924)
Karel Havlíček Borovský (1925)
The Lantern (1925)
The Countess from Podskalí (1926)
Never the Twain (1926)
Eve's Daughters (1928)
Suzy Saxophone (1928)
The First Kiss (1928)
The Girl with the Whip (1929)
Sin of a Beautiful Woman (1929)
Sinful and Sweet (1929)
The Caviar Princess (1930)
Fairground People (1930)
Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1930)
Him and His Sister (1931)
The Squeaker (1931)
Business Under Distress (1931)
Die Fledermaus (1931)
The Cruel Mistress (1932)
The Undertaker (1932)
A Night in Paradise (1932)
Lelíček in the Services of Sherlock Holmes (1932)
Kiki (1932)
Should We Wed Them? (1932)
Wehe, wenn er losgelassen (1932)
Mamsell Nitouche (1932)
The Ringer (1932)
The Love Hotel (1933)
Daughter of the Regiment (1933)
Little Dorrit (1934)
Nezlobte dědečka (1934)
The Switched Bride (1934)
The Brenken Case (1934)
Polish Blood (1934)
Frasquita (1934)
I Love All the Women (1935)
Knockout (1935)
The Young Count (1935)
The White Horse Inn (1935)
The Bashful Casanova (1936)
The Postman from Longjumeau (1936)
Where the Lark Sings (1936)
Florentine (1937)
A Girl from the Chorus (1937)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
Cause for Divorce (1937)
The Vagabonds (1937)
The Lantern (1938)
Ducháček Will Fix It (1938)
Place de la Concorde (1939)
Schweik's New Adventures (1943)
They Met in the Dark (1943)
It Happened One Sunday (1944)
One Night at the Tabarin (1947)
The Thief of Bagdad (1952)

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