Worm's Eye View

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The film is set in a family home during World War II. Their bitter landlady is not pleased by five fighters from the Royal Air Force who are staying there and she re-directs unjustly her frustrations against the family. Part of the film appears in the 1948 Rise and Shiner.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/332753|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117100416/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/332753|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-17|title=Rise and Shiner (1948)|work=BFI}}

• Ronald Shiner as Sam Porter
• Garry Marsh as Pop Brownlow
• Diana Dors as Thelma
• John Blythe as Duke
• Bruce Seton as Squadron Leader Briarly
• Digby Wolfe as Corporal Mark Trelawney
• Eric Davies as Taffy
• Everley Gregg as Mrs. Bounty
• Christina Forrest as Bella Bounty
• Jonathan Field as Sydney
• William Percy as Mr Bounty

The play was first staged in October 1944 by Basil Thomas, of the Wolverhampton Repertory Company. It went on tour the following spring and did well but did not transfer to London due to a shortage of theatres. However in late 1945 the play was put on at the Embassy Theatre in Hampstead and in January 1946 was transferred to the Whitehall, starring Ronald Shiner. The play was a huge success, running for five and a half years, briefly beating Chu Chin Cow as the longest running play in London. In 1952 Drama magazine wrote "There can scarcely be an adult member of the population who is not thoroughly familiar with the doings of this group of R.A.F. billetees during the war."{{cite magazine|page=43|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_drama_autumn-1952_1_26/page/43/mode/1up?|title=Long plays|date=Autumn 1952}}{{cite book|page=218-219|title= Overture for beginners|last=Delderfield|first= R. F.|year=1970}}

Filming took place at Hammersmith in late 1950.Round the British Studios

Nepean, Edith. Picture Show; London Vol. 56, Iss. 1450, (Jan 13, 1951): 11.The Frasers and the Munros call rival rallies

Date: Wednesday, Nov. 29, 1950 Publication: Daily Mail (London, England) p 2

Worm's Eye View was the sixth most popular film at the British box office in 1951.{{cite news |date=29 December 1951 |title=Vivien Leigh Actress of the Year. |page=1 |newspaper=Townsville Daily Bulletin |publisher=National Library of Australia |location=Qld. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63397098 |access-date=27 April 2012}}{{cite magazine |last=Thumim |first=Janet |title=The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry |url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Volume_32_Issue_3/page/n17 |magazine=Screen |volume=32 |issue=3 |page=259}} It was particularly popular in Scotland.{{cite book|title= British cinema of the 1950s : the decline of deference|last1=Harper|first1= Sue|last2=Porter|first2=Vincent|date=2003|publisher= Oxford University Press|page=254}}

This encouraged the same production company to film another stage farce with Shiner, Relucant Heroes. This too was a large success.

TV Guide wrote, "some mild amusement is to be found here, particularly in the dialogue, though all in all this is nothing special. British filmgoers thought otherwise, though, making both the film and Shiner big successes."{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/worms-eye-view/review/123184/|title=Worm's Eye View|work=TVGuide.com}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20201127211000/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bb380bf Worm's Eye View] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
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