Victory Wedding

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Victory Wedding
Directed byJessie Matthews
Screenplay byDoreen Montgomery
Produced byMaurice Ostrer
StarringJessie Matthews
John Mills
Dulcie Gray
Production
company
Release date
  • 1944 (1944)
Running time
18 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Victory Wedding is a 1944 British short dramatic public information film directed by Jessie Matthews and starring Matthews, John Mills and Dulcie Gray.[1][2][3][4] It was written by Doreen Montgomery. The film was produced by Gainsborough Pictures for the National Savings Committee "Salute the Soldier" campaign.[1]

Plot

Soldier Bill Clark arrives home on leave, and his mother suggests that he meets up with his onetime girlfriend Mary, with whom he has lost contact. They re-start their relationship and Bill proposes to her. Soon after they marry, Bill returns to his overseas posting. The film's commentary encourages women to save money to "help your man to win that better way of life we are all fighting for".[5]

Cast

Reception

In Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema, Antonia Lant wrote: "As the film opens, the male narrator, in voice-over, calls up both men and women, alternately and together, as different pronouns are heard on the sound track. At first the voice describes the feelings of a man, Bill (Mills), who realizes that Mary (Gray) still loves him: Bill loves the simple things that 'millions of us like him' also love, says the voice. Here the term 'us' refers most unambiguously to men who love women, although the female audience is also being addressed here through the male form. As the film draws to a close, however, the voice-over gradually comes to speak directly to women".[6]

References

  1. "Victory Wedding". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
  2. "Victory Wedding". Kine Weekly. 325 (1928): 39. 30 March 1944. ProQuest 2826345757.
  3. "Victory Wedding". Kine Weekly. 325 (1928): 38. 30 March 1944. ProQuest 2826345824.
  4. Plain, Gill (2006). John Mills and British Cinema : Masculinity, Identity and Nation. Edinburgh University Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0748621071.
  5. "Victory Wedding". BFIplayer. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
  6. Lant, Antonia Caroline (1991). Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema. Princeton University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0691055404.