The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War..
Arthur Eliot, T.A. Welsh, Bruce Bairnsfather, George Pearson
United Kingdom
The Mud-Caked Poetry of Survival George Pearson's Cararry On descends into the visceral reality of the Western Front with unflinching intimacy. Unlike the jingoistic recruitment films flooding cinemas in 1918, Pearson and writers Arthur Eliot/T.A. Welsh adapt Bruce Bairnsfather's legendary "Old Bill" cartoons into so...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
George Pearson
George Pearson
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" The Mud-Caked Poetry of Survival George Pearson's Cararry On descends into the visceral reality of the Western Front with unflinching intimacy. Unlike the jingoistic recruitment films flooding cinemas in 1918, Pearson and writers Arthur Eliot/T.A. Welsh adapt Bruce Bairnsfather's legendary "Old Bill" cartoons into something startlingly modern – a bleakly humorous tone poem about ordinary men navigating existential absurdity. The film opens not with patriotic fanfare but with close-ups of rotti..."
