Noted English writer and biographer L.T.C. Rolt, a pioneer of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, suggested not only the film's title but various filming locations. He recorded in his autobiography that he was saddened not to receive a credit on the finished print.
A preserved section of the Smith's horse-drawn boat Sunny Valley can be seen at Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum in Northamptonshire.
Having had no previous theatrical release on this side of the Atlantic, this film's USA premiere occurred Saturday 12 January 1946 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1); re-titled The Girl on the Canal, it first aired in Fort Worth Sunday 21 August 1949 on WBAP (Channel 5).
The film premièred on Monday 24th September 1945 at London's the Tivoli Cinema on the Strand. It was second feature in a double bill to And Then There Were None (1945).
Was intended to be the first of a proposed series of studio docudramas that combined fact with fiction, but others did not follow.
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By what name was The Girl of the Canal (1945) officially released in Canada in English?
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