Can anyone explain to me why a film released in 1942 called 'Went the Day Well?' appears as Christopher Lee's earliest film appearance (though uncredited) on his page on the IMDb?
This makes no sense to me for a number of reasons:
1. He makes no mention of it in his autobiography.
2. It also doesn't appear in Rigby's book (which I generally trust on these matters), either in Lee's official filmography or as a comon mistaken inclusion on filmographies compiled by other people.
3. The IMDb page for the film does say that it features men of the Gloucestershire Regiment, but I've no reason to believe CL ever belonged to this.
4. At the time when the film was being shot, he would have been serving in the RAF in Egypt and North Africa.
5. The film was made and set entirely in England.
The page for this film on the IMDb is here, if anyone wants to look at it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035429/
Someone called 'Christopher Lee' does appear in the full credits for the film, and the good people at IMDb have obviously assumed this is our CL. But could it just be a person of that name (it's relatively common, after all), who was been wrongly identified by the IMDb?
Does someone need to write to them and tell them they've made a mistake here?
Penny
Just a short note, but the IMDB info is put together by a great many individual contributors, most of them simply fans who upload snippets of data. In some cases, I expect, information is provided by production company PR departments looking to generate a bit of interest in a forthcoming project, etc... Whatever the case, it is not any sort of "official" or "professional" body that puts the data together, so errors, ommissions and over-sights do creep in on a fairly regular basis. While it is an invaluable general tool, it isn't the sum of all movie knowledge.
I don't know anything about "Went the Day Well?", but I think I've found another wrong entry on IMDB, namely a 2003 film called "Graduation Day":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363652/
- this film lists Mr. Lee as playing the character "Doc".
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