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Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson star in this British wartime spy thriller set in London's Docklands during the Blitz of 1940. Two journalists investigate the 'People for Peace Society' who are campaigning to appease the Germans - only to find their stories continually censored by Home Security. As the Blitz rages, the sinister truth starts to emerge.
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Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson star in this British wartime spy thriller set in London's Docklands during the Blitz of 1940. War correspondent Bob Randall (Richard Greene) returns to England from Dunkirk with a powerful story of Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg - and a stark warning about the traitors who aided the Germans in their conquest of Europe.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An English journalist just back from Dunkirk writes a story blasting a London-based peace-in-our-time organization, but the story is killed by a government agency. Are there Nazi sympathizers or just cautious bureaucrats in the agency? Is the peace group led by innocent dupes or by ruthless Nazi agents? The reporter intends to find out.
The movie isn't A-list, but it's better than a programer. It's a craftsman-like piece of work. In feature roles are two first-rate British character actors, Roland Culver (The Pallisers, Dead of Night) and Miles Malleson (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit)
The DVD transfer is surprisingly good considering the age of the movie and that it was never considered a classic
The movie isn't A-list, but it's better than a programer. It's a craftsman-like piece of work. In feature roles are two first-rate British character actors, Roland Culver (The Pallisers, Dead of Night) and Miles Malleson (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit)
The DVD transfer is surprisingly good considering the age of the movie and that it was never considered a classic
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
this is a great film, really draws you in from the start and bought to life a period of history that my beloved nan talked about all the time, it has a run time of 1 hour and 17 minutes and is a must see for anyone interested in the 2nd world war era
the film starts with a war correspondant maaking his way across france to dunkirk in the midst of the british retreat he has witnessed the brutality of the nazis first hand and describes this one example being the nazis machine gunning women and children refuges at the side of the road, he also goes on to describe that during the fall of france the damage that nazi agents and nazi collaborators caused caausing fear and misdirection that in part caused france to fall
he gets back to england one of the last men rescued from the beaches with the wounded men of the british army determined to reach london and his newspaper to inform the people of britain of the danger of nazi sympathisers and of pacifists, he is determined that what happened to france wont happen here in the uk
he tells his story and collapses, he is in fact very ill, after his release from hospital he discovers his stories about one group in particular the people for peace has been killed by the home security network and sets off to try and find out why
he discovers that british intelliegence is working behind the scenes trying to find out the german backers and nazi sympathisers that are backing the project, he agrees not to publish this information
his collegue the beautiful carol , a budding reporter who is waiting to go to america to join the british press bureau there begin investigating and reporting on the blitz and publishing the stories of people who lives have been devestated, during one of these interviews carol interviews the front man of the people for peace who has been bombed out of his house, and after this experince he tells carol he has changed his views and wants to publish a statement to this effect
before this can happen he is rushed to hospital but he promises to give her a statement tomorrow, well carol shares this with randall and this is where they get drawn into a tangled web of deception and murder
now i cant tell you any more without ruining the ending but this is truly a great film i know it was released as propaganda at that time showing the4e nazis in the worst light possible but its mystery and drama is outstanding and i can truly say its a great film from begining to end which is going to stay in my dvd collection and be viewed again and again, for me its a must buy and as i only found it from an amazon recomendation i cant thank them enough
the film starts with a war correspondant maaking his way across france to dunkirk in the midst of the british retreat he has witnessed the brutality of the nazis first hand and describes this one example being the nazis machine gunning women and children refuges at the side of the road, he also goes on to describe that during the fall of france the damage that nazi agents and nazi collaborators caused caausing fear and misdirection that in part caused france to fall
he gets back to england one of the last men rescued from the beaches with the wounded men of the british army determined to reach london and his newspaper to inform the people of britain of the danger of nazi sympathisers and of pacifists, he is determined that what happened to france wont happen here in the uk
he tells his story and collapses, he is in fact very ill, after his release from hospital he discovers his stories about one group in particular the people for peace has been killed by the home security network and sets off to try and find out why
he discovers that british intelliegence is working behind the scenes trying to find out the german backers and nazi sympathisers that are backing the project, he agrees not to publish this information
his collegue the beautiful carol , a budding reporter who is waiting to go to america to join the british press bureau there begin investigating and reporting on the blitz and publishing the stories of people who lives have been devestated, during one of these interviews carol interviews the front man of the people for peace who has been bombed out of his house, and after this experince he tells carol he has changed his views and wants to publish a statement to this effect
before this can happen he is rushed to hospital but he promises to give her a statement tomorrow, well carol shares this with randall and this is where they get drawn into a tangled web of deception and murder
now i cant tell you any more without ruining the ending but this is truly a great film i know it was released as propaganda at that time showing the4e nazis in the worst light possible but its mystery and drama is outstanding and i can truly say its a great film from begining to end which is going to stay in my dvd collection and be viewed again and again, for me its a must buy and as i only found it from an amazon recomendation i cant thank them enough
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This film serves a propaganda purpose (to put the best gloss on the retreat at Dunkirk and combat defeatism at a time when the war in Europe still hung in the balance), but it does not neglect story-making or crave our indulgence "because these are hard times." The story-telling is brisk, verging on breathless, and the film-making is of superior quality. The director makes deft use of newsreel footage of London under the Blitz, weaving it convincingly into his set pieces. But, as other reviews have suggested, perhaps the strongest aspect of the film is the way it captures human responses to a city under bombardment and the threat of invasion. The combination achieved of the comical, the blase and the poignant is just about right. Perhaps its "chin up" tone might seem a bit false to some viewers today, but I think most will find something genuine lies behind this entertainment. The story? Well, it should keep your attention. The cast all do good work, and the transfer looks OK for its age.
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