Fire Over England

Fire Over England
Fire Over England
	Film poster
Directed by	William K. Howard
Screenplay by	Clemence Dane; Sergei Nolbandov
Based on	Fire Over England; 1936 novel; by A. E. W. Mason
Produced by	Erich Pommer; Alexander Korda
Starring	Laurence Olivier; Vivien Leigh; Flora Robson; Leslie Banks
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Edited by	Jack Dennis
Music by	Richard Addinsell
Color process	Black and white
Production; company	London Film Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	5 March 1937;
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Fire Over England is a 1937 London Film Productions film drama, notable for providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. It was directed by William K. Howard and written by Clemence Dane, nominally from the 1936 novel Fire Over England by AEW Mason. Leigh's performance in the film helped to convince David O. Selznick to cast her as Scarlett O'Hara in his 1939 production of Gone with the Wind. The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I focusing on England's victory over the Spanish Armada.^[1]