Made at the height of the invasion scare in England, Went the Day Well? concerns the infiltration of an unsuspecting British village by sixty German paratroopers. "Cavalcanti was Britain's only real noir specialist, and in the forties he turned out both traditional and unorthodox noir subjects. This wartime propaganda film, written by Graham Greene, is rather like a Hitchcock script suddenly turned over to Buñuel to direct, full of beauty, black humor, and sudden savagery. An important film, still insufficiently known and appreciated."-William K. Everson