Green Grow the Rushes (re-released in 1954 as Brandy Ashore[2]) is a 1951 British comedy film directed by Derek N. Twist and starring Roger Livesey, Richard Burton and Honor Blackman.

The reason is that most of the local people know about or are involved in the liquor smuggling scheme operated by Captain Biddle and his accomplice Robert, who is posing as a fisherman when he is seen by the newspaper editor and his journalist daughter Meg.

The smugglers’ next cargo gets caught in a violent storm, and their boat washes inland, settling in the meadow of a farmer whose wife Polly happens to be Biddle's ex-wife.

However the NFFC rejected ACT's next two proposed projects, films about Sir Warren Hastings (The Governor's Lady) and the Tolpuddle Martyrs (Six Men of Dorset).

At times the cast seem more successful than the director; Roger Livesey, for example, gives an amusing performance as Captain Biddle, and Harcourt Williams as the Chairman of the Bench provides welcome relief from the dreary gambollings of the three Ministry officials.

Honor Blackman as a sob-sister on a local paper and Richard Burton as one of the smugglers provide an adequate romantic interest.