{"id":359222,"date":"2026-02-27T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359222\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:43:09","slug":"uk-armed-forces-shoot-porn-in-wwii-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/359222\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Armed Forces Shoot Porn in WWII Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe first trailer for \u201cThink of England<\/a>,\u201d the upcoming satirical WWII drama from BAFTA-nominated writer\/director Richard Hawkins (\u201cTheory of Flight, \u201cEverything\u201d), has been unveiled. <\/p>\n

\n\tInspired by an enduring wartime urban myth that Winston Churchill\u2019s U.K. government commissioned pornographic films to boost troop morale during World War II, the film \u2014\u00a0which first premiered in Tallinn \u2014\u00a0is now set to get its U.K. premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival on March 6. <\/p>\n

\n\tSet in the summer of 1943 on the Orkney Islands, where the Normandy landings are fast approaching and troops on the front line are increasingly desperate, the film follows an eclectic group of characters, each selected for their own unique skillset, tasked with a top-secret mission: to make pornographic films intended to raise morale ahead of invasion. As each assignee struggles under the weight of conscience, coercion, and fear, the darkly satirical story examines who draws society\u2019s moral lines, who enforces them, and what happens when they are crossed under extreme pressure.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, which was shot under the principles of Ted Hope\u2019s NonDe movement, stars Ronni Ancona (\u201cBig Impression,\u201d \u201cEastEnders\u201d) as wardrobe and makeup artist Agnes Dupr\u00e9e, with leading lady Natalie Quarry (\u201cCall the Midwife\u201d) as Holly Spurring, and leading man Jack Bandeira (\u201cThe Gold,\u201d \u201cAndor\u201d) as Corporal Evans, alongside John McCrea (Olivier award-winner \u201cEverybody\u2019s Talking About Jamie\u201d) as Captain Anthony Clune. The cast also includes Ben Bela B\u00f6hm (\u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d), Oscar Hoppe (\u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d) and Ollie Maddigan (\u201cThe Olive Boy\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by father-daughter duo Nick and Poppy O\u2019Hagan for Giant Films, \u201cThink of England\u201d is also a described as a \u201ccontroversial film about cinema itself,\u201d about how moving images have \u201chistorically tested, challenged, and redrawn the boundaries of what audiences are willing to see.\u201d Set firmly within its time, the film \u201cshines a light on the institutional misogyny and homophobia of the era while allowing its unlikely characters to gesture toward a more tolerant future, reminding us to continually question the sensibilities and censorship of any age, including our own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee the \u201cThink of England\u201d trailer below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for \u201cThink of England,\u201d the upcoming satirical WWII drama from BAFTA-nominated writer\/director Richard Hawkins (\u201cTheory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327,167716,1983],"class_list":{"0":"post-359222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-think-of-england","14":"tag-trailers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}