Glorious 39 is a 2009 British war thriller film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Jeremy Northam, Christopher Lee, David Tennant, Jenny Agutter and Eddie Redmayne.

[3] In present-day London, Michael Walton visits his older cousins, Walter and Oliver Page.

Michael is curious to learn what happened to Anne, which leads Walter to reminisce about the summer of 1939 at the Keyes' estate in Norfolk.

The next day, while looking for a cat in one of the property's sheds, which are out of bounds as they are used for storing Sir Alexander's private papers, Anne finds gramophone records, labelled "Foxtrot".

Sir Alexander brushes off the idea but offers to ask Balcombe to remove the records from the shed, which he promises to do the next day during a picnic.

The next day, he arrives to their scene late and clearly upset, and the director insists that they begin shooting immediately.

The news that Britain has declared war on Germany is announced, and Gilbert is later found dead from apparent suicide.

Suddenly she hears the voice of her brother, Ralph, who suggests the name "Thin Man Dancing" for their covert operation, a reference to a childhood toy.

After Anne finds Lawrence's body in a shed filled with euthanised pets, she escapes and gives the recording to a child, who promises to post it to Churchill.

She is subsequently recaptured, drugged by her father, and held prisoner in Aunt Elizabeth's house, which is close to St Paul's Cathedral.

Back in the present, Walter tells Michael that Anne had died in Canada twenty years ago and that he had just been doing what his family and Balcombe had wanted.