This educational travelogue around
William Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-On-Avon, detouring into the surrounding beautiful Cotswold villages, blended patriotic and literary concerns with pictorial pleasures and, in its depiction of tourism in wartime, a strong sense of normality and continuity. "Look here, upon this picture", wrote the Bard in Hamlet (Act iii Scene 4), and that is exactly what film-goers did, allowing Our Mr. Shakespeare to play for six months in London's West End.