The Snow Goose (film)

The Snow Goose is a 1971 British television drama film based on the 1941 novella

The film follows the relationship between Fritha (Jenny Agutter), an orphaned young girl, and Philip Rhayader (Richard Harris), a lighthouse keeper in the fishing village Great Marsh in Essex. The two meet as Rhayader helps Fritha care for a snow goose she has found, despite his solitary lifestyle. The bird has been injured by hunters shooting at it.

Set at the beginning of World War II, the film uses the backdrop of the ongoing political events and battles throughout the narrative. As the goose heals, Fritha and the goose leave Rhayader. Rhayader once again becomes reclusive and confines himself to his lighthouse lodging.

As Germany invades Poland and the war begins, Rhayader applies to the Observer Corps, but is denied due to his disabilities. Fritha and the goose eventually return to Rhayader, but Rhayader ventures out to help rescue the British Expeditionary Force, trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. He is killed during the Dunkirk evacuation, and the goose returns to Fritha, who is now grown up. She realises she had come to love Rhayader and is able to save one of the paintings he had made of her, as a child with the wounded goose, before the lighthouse and all other artwork are obliterated by a German pilot.

Cast

• Richard Harris as Philip Rhayader
• Jenny Agutter as Fritha
• Graham Crowden as the recruiting officer
• Julian Somers as Jim
• Freda Bamford as the postmistress
• Noel Johnson as the naval captain
• Gary Watson as the narrator
• William Marlowe as a soldier

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• The Snow Goose at
  IMDb

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