Yellow Canary (1943)

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Anna Neagle

Sally Maitland

Richard Greene

Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick

Nova Pilbeam

Betty Maitland

Albert Lieven

Capt. Jan Orlock

Lucie Mannheim

Madame Orlock

George Thorpe

Colonel Charles Hargraves

Marjorie Fielding

Lady Maitland

Franklin Dyall

Captain Foster

Margaret Rutherford

Mrs. Towcester

Claude Bailey

Major Fothergill

Sybille Binder

Madame Orlock's Attendant
(as Sybilla Binder)

Valentine Dyall

German Commander

Cyril Fletcher

And Introducing Entertainer

Grace Allardyce

Maitland's Maid
(uncredited)

Madge Brindley

Newspaper Seller at Railway Station
(uncredited)

Clifford Buckton

Ship's Captain
(uncredited)

Patric Curwen

Sir William Maitland
(uncredited)

Edgar Driver

Ticket Collector on Train
(uncredited)

Director
- Herbert Wilcox
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Where to find missing minutes at the beginning

The U. S. version of this film (and also a Spanish-subtitled version on Amazon, apparently) is missing around 11 minutes near the beginning. The minutes are rather important, because they include a scene at the protagonist's home that is helpful for later developments. Those minutes also include Nova Pilbeam, who plays the protagonist's sister. This is the version shown on TCM. However, there is a seemingly complete version currently (2021) available on youtube, and the viewer should watch the first quarter-hour there. I thought I was alerted to this fact here on IMDb, and I wanted to thank the user, but I can't find the note. It must have been two reviewers of the Spanish-subtitled version on Amazon. Enjoyable film, more enjoyable with the minutes included. Happy to see Richard Greene, because I always used to watch him in Robin Hood when I was a child. Margaret Rutherford is terrific in her small parts, and Anna Neagle is very good too.

lois-padawer
Aug 21, 2021
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Trivia
"Put her into Brixton jail with all the other 18Bs", says an annoyed lady diner on seeing Sally. This references Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939, which allowed for those suspected of being Nazi sympathizers to be interned; some indeed being housed in H.M.P. Brixton.

Goofs
The first time the cigarette case is opened, to signify the owner's Nazi sympathies, the engraved swastika is reversed, the open-ended bars pointing downward. At the end of the film when the same cigarette case is opened, the engraved swastika has been corrected. Obviously 2 separate cases were used - one correct, one not.