Fuss Over Feathers

Original title: Conflict of Wings

1954
1h 24m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

127

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John Gregson, Niall MacGinnis, Kieron Moore, and Muriel Pavlow in Fuss Over Feathers (1954)

Comedy Drama

In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocke... Read allIn rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

127

YOUR RATING

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Lightweight but evocative of time and place and still relevant

Not many films stick with me for years but this one did and now that I've just watched it again I think the same will happen for the next few years.

It is a lightweight, afternoon type of film with no stand out performances (John Gregson is standard Jon Gregson - not to my taste, Muriel Pavlow doesn't get a chance to act much and so on), no stand out dialogue, no wow plot. But what it does have is bags of sense of time and place and a unique (as far as I've seen) social documentary type quality look at the RAF in the mid 1950s and conflict with conservancy. I think the quality of light, the locations chosen and the soundtrack (not music but ambient) are what do it for me.

There is annoying animal sub plot sewn in, I would guess for kids' interest, that is weak.

If the acting, dialogue or plot had been distinctive this could have been an 8 or 9 for me.