Those Kids from Town

Those Kids from Town is a 1942 British black-and-white, comedy-drama propaganda film directed by Lance Comfort and starring George Cole, Harry Fowler, Percy Marmont, Ronald Shiner and Charles Victor. It was produced by Richard Vernon and presented by British National Films and Anglo-American Film Corporation. It was adapted for the screen by Adrian Alington from his 1940 novel These Our Strangers, and deals with the experiences of a group of wartime evacuee children from London, sent to safety in a rural village, and their interaction with the host community. Of the juvenile actors involved, Fowler and Cole would go on to successful adult careers.