Enemy at the Door S01E02 The Librarian

An investigation into Porteous' botched escape cripples islanders' rights. The Germans also mount a censorship campaign, yanking library books from shelves. As the violence escalates, the librarian refuses to co-operate and is arrested for assaulting a German soldier.

Enemy at the Door S01E01 By Order of the Fuhrer

Enemy at the Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.

The islanders were chiefly represented by the respected local doctor, Philip Martell (Bernard Horsfall), who struggled to maintain the peace while the Germans were led by Major Dieter Richter (Alfred Burke), a peace-time academic who was inclined to be lenient on the Guernsey populace but whose approach was challenged by his more conventionally nasty SS counterpart Hauptsturmführer Klaus Reinicke (Simon Cadell). Rounding out the principal German characters were Major Friedl and Oberleutnant Kluge, a former policeman still more inclined to act as a policeman rather than a soldier.

Many episodes portrayed the balance of power and fragile harmony between the islanders and the German occupying forces, and how it was threatened by either resistance action or over-zealous clamping down by the Germans.

A precursor to his role as Bergerac in the detective series set on Jersey, John Nettles played a police detective ordered to work for the Germans and anguished by the conflict between his duty and collaborating with the enemy.

The series ended with the Germans still in occupation, and did not depict their eventual defeat.

Series One (1978)

#	Title	Original Airdate
1	By Order of the Führer	21 January
2	The Librarian	28 January
3	After the Ball	4 February
4	Steel Hand from the Sea	11 February
5	The Laws and Usages of War	18 February
6	V for Victory	25 February
7	The Polish Affaire	4 March
8	Officers of the Law	11 March
9	The Jerrybag	18 March
10	Treason	25 March
11	Pains and Penalties	1 April
12	The Prussian Officer	8 April
13	Judgement of Solomon	15 April

    Plot summary[edit]

In January 1943, Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) is an upper-middle-class housewife living in a Midwestern town near a military base with her two teenage daughters, Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Bridget "Brig" (Shirley Temple). Anne's beloved husband Tim Hilton has volunteered for U.S. Army service in World War II. Anne has just returned from seeing her husband off to Camp Claiborne, and she and her daughters must adjust to Tim's absence and make other sacrifices for the war effort, including food rationing; planting a victory garden; giving up the services of their loyal maid Fidelia (Hattie McDaniel) who nevertheless offers to continue working part-time for the Hiltons while foregoing wages; and taking in a boarder, the curmudgeonly retired Colonel Smollett (Monty Woolley). When the Hiltons travel by train in a failed attempt to see Tim one last time before he ships out, they encounter or travel with many other people whose lives have been affected by the war, and they end up not getting to see Tim because their train is delayed to allow a defense supply train to go through first. In contrast, the Hiltons' socialite neighbor Emily Hawkins (Agnes Moorehead) complains about the inconveniences caused by the war and engages in unsupportive behaviors such as hoarding food and criticizing the Hiltons' efforts.

The Colonel has a strained relationship with his young grandson, Bill Smollett (Robert Walker), because Bill failed out of West Point and is now serving in the U.S. Army as a mere corporal rather than an officer. An old friend of Anne and Tim's, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Tony Willett (Joseph Cotten), also visits the Hiltons while awaiting his orders. Bill quickly falls for Jane, who has a crush on Tony, who in turn has long been attracted to Anne. However, after Tony leaves, Bill and Jane's relationship slowly develops and they fall in love. They become engaged, but Bill convinces Jane to wait until after the war to get married. Bill finally is sent overseas and Jane tearfully runs after his departing train to tell him goodbye. The Colonel, who under his gruff exterior really does care about his grandson, conveys his good wishes to Bill via Anne, but arrives too late to say goodbye in person. 

Jane is determined to do more for the war effort and begins volunteering as a nurse's aide at the nearby military hospital, where returning veterans with physical and mental injuries are sent to recover. Shortly after Bill's departure, the Hiltons receive word that he was killed in action at Salerno. The Hiltons and the Colonel grieve together for Bill. The family also learns that Tim Hilton is missing in action. Jane and Anne finally tell off Emily Hawkins after Emily suggests that it is unseemly for Jane to volunteer at the hospital, and Anne decides she herself must do more to help and trains as a welder for defense work at the shipyard. 

Tony returns on leave and talks to Anne about his feelings for her, but she believes that he only keeps her as a romantic ideal because she is married to his friend Tim and therefore unattainable. Anne and Tony decide to leave things as they are and remain friends. On Christmas Eve, Fidelia places gifts under the tree that Tim had given her months earlier to leave for his family, and Anne is moved to tears. Anne then gets a cablegram by telephone informing her that Tim is safe and is coming home, and she and her daughters joyfully embrace.

Cast[edit]

• Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Anne Hilton
• Jennifer Jones as Jane Deborah Hilton
• Joseph Cotten as Lieutenant Commander Tony Willett
• Shirley Temple as Bridget 'Brig' Hilton
• Monty Woolley as Colonel William G. Smollett
• Lionel Barrymore as Clergyman
• Robert Walker as Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II
• Hattie McDaniel as Fidelia
• Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Emily Hawkins
• Alla Nazimova as Zofia Koslowska (as Nazimova)
• Albert Bassermann as Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
• Gordon Oliver as Marine Officer seeking room
• Keenan Wynn as Lieutenant Solomon
• Guy Madison as Sailor Harold E. Smith
• Craig Stevens as Danny Williams
• Lloyd Corrigan as Mr. Mahoney, the Grocer
• Jackie Moran as Johnny Mahoney
• Dorothy Dandridge as Black Officer's Wife in railway station (uncredited)
• John Derek as minor role (uncredited)
• Jane Devlin as Gladys Brown (uncredited)
• Rhonda Fleming as Girl at dance (uncredited)
• Andrew V. McLaglen as Former plowboy (uncredited)
• Terry Moore as Refugee Child on train (uncredited)
• Ruth Roman as Envious Girl in train station (uncredited)

https://www.nytimes.com/1944/07/21/archives/since-you-went-away-a-film-of-wartime-domestic-life-with-claudette.html

Since You Went Away

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Since You Went Away
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Cromwell
Produced by	David O. Selznick
Screenplay by	David O. Selznick
Based on	Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife 1943 novel by Margaret Buell Wilder
Starring	Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Shirley Temple
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Stanley Cortez Lee Garmes
Edited by	John D. Faure Arthur Fellows Wayland M. Hendry[1]
Production company	Selznick International Pictures Vanguard Films
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	July 20, 1944 (USA)
Running time	172 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3,257,000[2]
Box office	$7 million +[2]

Since You Went Away is a 1944 American drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It is an epic about the American home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder.^[3] The music score was by Max Steiner, and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, George Barnes (uncredited), and Robert Bruce (uncredited).

The film is set in a mid-sized American town, where people with loved ones in the Armed Forces try to cope with their changed circumstances and make their own contributions to the war effort. The town is near a military base, and some of the characters are troops serving Stateside.

Though famously sentimental in places, Since You Went Away is somber at times about the effects of war on ordinary people. Some characters on the homefront are dealing with grief, loneliness, or fear for the future. Wounded and disabled troops are shown in the hospital scenes.