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Painted Boats (US titles The Girl on the Canal or The Girl of the Canal) is a British drama film directed by Charles Crichton and released by Ealing Studios in 1945.
A semi-documentary, light drama following the lives of two families living on the canal boats of Britain in the mid 1940s.
Painted Boats is a British drama film directed by Charles Crichton and released by Ealing Studios in 1945. Painted Boats, one of the lesser-known Ealing films of the period, is brief, uses a little-known cast and has a slight storyline.
Painted Boats is – without any doubt – one of the lesser-known movies from Ealing studios, whose breakthrough year came four years earlier with the classics Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts and Coronets and the original version of Whisky Galore!
- Charles Crichton
- Ealing Studios
Jul 17, 2012 · The film is dominated by strong location filming from director of photography Douglas Slocombe, which moves from sweeping aerial shots to close images on the boats and canal sides themselves...
Painted Boats (US titles The Girl on the Canal or The Girl of the Canal) is a black-and-white British film directed by Charles Crichton and released by Ealing Studios in 1945.
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Painted Boats is Ealing Studios' warm tribute to the men and women who worked and lived on England's canals in the 1940s. It remains one of the company's most enchanting films, despite its somewhat uneven mix of documentary, wartime propaganda and drama.
