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One's first thoughts are how clichéd this film is. But then you realise, as with Shakespeare, that the characters and situations only became clichés because of the constant copying of the theme in subsequent movies. Whereas things appear to fall into the hero's lap as per usual, the action is, at times, surprisingly realistic. A female collaborator is viciously slapped about by the SS and later gunned down by the Resistance. In turn two German officers are shot in the back without compassion and in retaliation fifty hostages are rounded up and shot. Thankfully off-screen. However in the midst of all of this is a hilarious scene in a cinema when the French clientele,at being subjected to a newsreel of Hitler, begin catcalling and making shadows on the screen. These include a V-sign, a fist punching Hitler in the face, and fingers tugging at the Furher's hair. All in all an enjoyable propaganda film

War time drama about a French Resistance Group

Very interesting British film from the 1940s that can be seen on NETFLIX! A young man arrives in a French town occupied by the National Socialists who has explosive information from the Nazi troops that the British could put to good use. At first everything seems to be going quite smoothly, but after an attack by the Resistance, the SS takes care of the matter...

What was initially a tranquil film turns into a grim war drama in the second half, with surprising levels of harshness for the 1940s.

Not a masterpiece, but definitely worth discovering as a film document of the time!

What is striking in this film is the grim realism which makes a very authentic impression. You might object against the outrageous cruelties, and there are no small number of casualties here, but rarher a majority of all the actors. Still there are some breaths of fresh air, some puffs of good humour, some moments of humanity, but we have to remember that 1943 was perhaps the grimmest of the war years, and we who live so long afterwards can have no idea of how it really was, except by films such as this, made in the middle of horrendous crisis; and another idea to cheer it up could be that the leading actor John Clements actually looks like James Stewart, and James Stewart would have been perfect in the role. He never made any French parts except one, which was a failure, but John Clements is perfect as a Frenchman and could be a good replacement for James Stewart.

Somewhat out of the blue this wartime resistance drama has recently surfaced on Movies4Men.It is one of numerous similar films made around the same time of the war eg Flemish Farm,Freedom Radio which purported to show to English audiences what it was like to live in Occupied Europe.One wonders at this remove what their purpose was.Were they just rousing adventure stories or were they meant to show to the English audiences just how beastly the Nazis were and how the occupied nations were resisting them.I suppose the one standout of this film is the performance of Yvonne Arnaud.She is truly head and shoulders above the rest of the cast.This film is reasonably entertaining and worth a viewing

This is a ww2 drama made in 1943.

It is exactly my sort of film but I don't recall seeing it before I bought an expensive remastered blu ray.

I value the fact that I can buy remastered forgotten classics.

The blu ray comes with a 40 page booklet that claims the director is underrated,disagree there is a reason why his films are not well known,they are weak.

I can't buy Operation Secret or Cross Of Lorraine but somebody decided to issue this film? Crazy.

My god I can see why it is never on tv or why I don't remember it.

I am British,my parents used to groan when most British films came on tv when I was a kid.

I thought this was unfair and I love lots of British films from 1940s and 1950s.

But this film was not known to me and I miss I had not bought it without seeing it previously.

I a trying to not be negative but I can't find much to like about this film.

I have a high tolerance for war films but this disappointed me.