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Diggers

1931 · 61 min

A genial, old-fashioned stage comedy that ambles through nostalgic wartime larks with gentle charm and little urgency.

Overview
Attending a reunion, two Australian ex-servicemen reminisce about their exploits in France during WW1. These include lying in a field hospital where they feigned deafness to extend their recuperation, stealing jars of rum from the Quartermaster and inventing an elaborate ruse to hide them and finally, the night before returning to the front relaxing in a French café where romance blossoms between the soldier and waitress as told through the song 'Mademoiselle from Armentieres'.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • memory
  • war
  • love
Places
  • military
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
F.W. Thring
Starring
Pat Hanna, George Moon, Joe Valli, Norman French, Edmund Warrington, Cecil Scott, Guy Hastings
Runtime
61 min
Country
Australia
Languages
English

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