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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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This is a great example of Ealing Studios finest. A British prisoner of war assumes the identity of a dead soldier having himself escaped from a Concentration camp. He has to write letters home (to the wife of the dead man) because the Germans were suspicious of his lack of correspondence to his family. Inevitably his true identity is exposed, and he attempts to escape from the camp. When he is eventually returned back to good old Blighty, the lady with whom he has corresponded is waiting for her husband to appear from the crowd, but our hero (michael Redgrave) has to tell her the truth. With Jack Warner, Basil Radford and Mervyn Johns, it's a great cast for a very British story.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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All I can say is, it is one of the best British war films ever made! You won't be disappointed.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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A good sentimental war film
This is a war film that would appeal to the ladies.It is set in a prisoner of war camp nad has plenty of flash backs about a selection of the characters lives and their loved ones at home.
A great ensemble of British character actors such Jimmy Hanley Jack Warner and Michael Redgrave.
Made in 1946 so I am such the audiences were well aware of the circumstances of the characters so although abit of a propaganda film the war was actually over.
Good strong story about each of the characters and I would defy anyone not to feel moved by the sentiment of the story.
Micheal Redgrave plays a Czech concentration camp prisoner who takes the identity of a dead British officer. Luckily for him he speak accent less English and also faultless German. He has to keep his identity hidden from the German sand writes to his assumed characters wife who is surprised to hear form him as they were estranged.
the ending is particularly moving as Gordon Jackson goes home as a blinded young soldier to his fiance. Jack Warner and is oppo Dai go back to see dia daughter who he has never met and the mother died in childbirth.
I wont give away the ending but it is very moving.
A great British film and deserves five stars.
This is a war film that would appeal to the ladies.It is set in a prisoner of war camp nad has plenty of flash backs about a selection of the characters lives and their loved ones at home.
A great ensemble of British character actors such Jimmy Hanley Jack Warner and Michael Redgrave.
Made in 1946 so I am such the audiences were well aware of the circumstances of the characters so although abit of a propaganda film the war was actually over.
Good strong story about each of the characters and I would defy anyone not to feel moved by the sentiment of the story.
Micheal Redgrave plays a Czech concentration camp prisoner who takes the identity of a dead British officer. Luckily for him he speak accent less English and also faultless German. He has to keep his identity hidden from the German sand writes to his assumed characters wife who is surprised to hear form him as they were estranged.
the ending is particularly moving as Gordon Jackson goes home as a blinded young soldier to his fiance. Jack Warner and is oppo Dai go back to see dia daughter who he has never met and the mother died in childbirth.
I wont give away the ending but it is very moving.
A great British film and deserves five stars.
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