This Land Is Mine (film)

This Land Is Mine

Directed by	Jean Renoir
Produced by	Dudley Nichols
Screenplay by	Dudley Nichols Jean Renoir
Starring	Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara George Sanders
Music by	Lothar Perl Friedrich Silcher
Cinematography	Frank Redman
Edited by	Frederic Knudtson
Production company	Jean-Renoir-Dudly Nichols Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	May 7, 1943 (1943-05-07)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

This Land Is Mine is a 1943 American war drama film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara and George Sanders.^[1] The film is set in an unspecified Nazi-occupied European country. Laughton plays Albert Lory, a cowardly school teacher in a small village "somewhere in Europe" (according to the film's opening title card) who is drawn into the actions of the Resistance through his love of his country and fellow schoolteacher Louise Martin, portrayed by O'Hara.

The film is one of the more acclaimed of the propaganda-tinged war films of the era. It won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Sound, Recording (Stephen Dunn).^[2] Having opened simultaneously in 72 theaters, the film set a record for gross receipts on an opening day upon its May 7, 1943 release.

Plot summary

People in an unnamed Nazi-occupied country face various ethical dilemmas and react in different ways.

Cast

Charles Laughton as Albert Lory
Maureen O'Hara as Louise Martin
George Sanders as George Lambert
Walter Slezak as Major Erich von Keller
Kent Smith as Paul Martin
Una O'Connor as Mrs. Emma Lory
Philip Merivale as Prof. Sorel
Thurston Hall as Mayor Manville
Ivan F. Simpson as Judge
George Coulouris as Thanh Dep Trai
Nancy Gates as Julie Grant
John Donat as Edmund W. Lorraine

References

↑ "This Land Is Mine". BFI.
↑ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-14.

External links

This Land Is Mine at the American Film Institute Catalog
This Land is Mine at the Internet Movie Database
This Land is Mine at the TCM Movie Database
This Land Is Mine at AllMovie

Films directed by Jean Renoir

Feature films	La Fille de l'eau Nana The Little Match Girl On purge bébé Isn't Life a Bitch? Night at the Crossroads Boudu Saved from Drowning Madame Bovary Toni Life Belongs to Us The Lower Depths Partie de campagne The Crime of Monsieur Lange La Grande Illusion La Marseillaise La Bête Humaine The Rules of the Game Swamp Water This Land Is Mine The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (uncredited) The Southerner The Diary of a Chambermaid The Woman on the Beach The River The Golden Coach French Cancan Elena and Her Men Picnic on the Grass The Elusive Corporal

Television	The Doctor's Horrible Experiment The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

The films of Dudley Nichols

Director & Screenplay	Government Girl (1944) Sister Kenny (1946) Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

Screenplay	Men Without Women (1930) Born Reckless (1930) A Devil with Women (1930) Seas Beneath (1931) The Black Camel (1931) Hush Money (1931) She Wanted a Millionaire (1932) Pilgrimage (1933) You Can't Buy Everything (1934) The Lost Patrol (1934) Judge Priest (1934) The Informer (1935) The Arizonian (1935) The Crusades (1935) Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) The Three Musketeers (1935) Mary of Scotland (1936) The Plough and the Stars (1937) The Toast of New York (1937) The Hurricane (1937) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Carefree (1938) Stagecoach (1939) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Man Hunt (1941) Swamp Water (1941) The Battle of Midway (1942) Air Force (1943) This Land Is Mine (1943) Bataan (1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) It Happened Tomorrow (1944) And Then There Were None (1945) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) The Fugitive (1947) Pinky (1949) Return of the Texan (1952) The Big Sky (1952) Prince Valiant (1954) Run for the Sun (1956) The Tin Star (1957) The Hangman (1959) Heller in Pink Tights (1960) Escape from Zahrain (1962)