Green Grow the Rushes

Green Grow the Rushes (1951)

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.

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  • Release Date: 1951-11-06
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Director: Derek N. Twist

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  • Cast

    • Roger Livesey

      Capt. Cedric Biddle

    • Honor Blackman

      Meg Cuffley

    • Richard Burton

      Robert 'Bob' Hammond

    • Frederick Leister

      Col. Gill

    • John Salew

      Herbert Finch

    • Colin Gordon

      Roderick Fisherwick

    • Geoffrey Keen

      Spencer Prudhoe

    • Cyril Smith

      Hubert Hewitt

    • Eliot Makeham

      James Urquhart

    • Jack McNaughton

      Bailiff Sgt. Edgar Rigby

    • Vida Hope

      Polly Bainbridge

    • Russell Waters

      Joseph Bainbridge the farmer

    • Archie Duncan

      Constable Pettigrew

    • Arnold Ridley

      Tom Cuffley

    • Gilbert Davis

      Whitley

    • Harcourt Williams

      Judge

    • John Stamp

      King Henry III

    • Bryan Forbes

      Fred Starling

    • Harold Goodwin

      Gosling

    • Henrik Jacobsen

      Sigismund

    • Betty Shale

      Mrs. Bush

    • Phil Tate

      Dance Band Musician

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