Ha'penny Breeze

I recall seeing this old movie back in the 1950's when I was living in UK. It was particularly interesting at the time since the action takes place at Pin Mill in Suffolk on the River Orwell which is just up the river from where I lived at the time.

As mentioned by the other reviewer, it is b&w and involves yachts and I believe barges are also part of the action. I would love to see a release of this on late night TV or in a collection of B-movies since it has the kind of appeal which so few movies have today.

DVD now on sale from Amazon at £4.69, just in time for the Christmas trade!

It has been many years since I saw this film and it does not appear to have ever been released in home-viewing format. From my memory the action takes place on a river in Eastern England (the Orwell in fact) at a small village (Pin Mill) and concerns the usual good guys and bad guys in a sailing race aboard barges. The plot is not unusual with anticipated cheating and other shenanigans, but the good buys win the race and all live happily ever after. Made soon after the end of World War II, this was a pleasant Sunday afternoon at the cinema allowing the citizenry of U.K., who were still under some rationing even in 1950, a little escapism. It did the job admirably. I would love to find a copy, somewhere, somehow.

This is a long forgotten B feature about the revival of a yacht building harbour.The story is a bore.The acting is amateurish.A lot of footage is devoted to a yacht race,so if you don't like watching such things then you will find viewing this film a chore.

A pleasant sub Ealing little film about villagers of a long forgotten fishing village. The hero returns from the second world war with an Aussie pal & extols the virtues of his home village, only to find it run down & virtually deserted. They decide to renovate the old boat but get no help from the locals until a yachting competition comes up. They all rally behind the main character to rebuild a boat & trying to turn it into a race winning yacht. A rare starring role for Edwin Richfield, a familiar face in films & tv shows of the 1950's 60's . The boat builders Harry King & Sons is still there in Pin Mill. This film is regularly shown on Talking Pictures TV.