Pretty much nailed this before in prior reviews; splendid scenes involving unspoken words and emotions, quintessentially British. Good editing by Fergus McDonell. The film that taught us about John Pudney.
John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John. Oh - also I wanted to see the young Renee Asherson, having started the day off with her older (what a young face she had - she's 30 here, looks much younger, was 77 in Memento Mori, lived till 99, 1915-2014. Her last performance was in The Others in 2001.) And Basil Radford, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Douglass Montgomery, Felix Aylmer, Bonar Colleano, Trevor Howard, Bill Owen.
Rattigan was a tail gunner in the RAF and used this experience to write the stage play 'Flare Path', which is the basis for this screenplay. It was a reasonable box office success in the UK but audiences were probably tired of seeing films about war.
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