I love black and white movies, especially WWII movies. Both my parents were in the army from 1942-1945. My Mum was a First Lieutenant having graduated from Officers Candidate School and my Dad was a Major. When I watch these grand old movies I think of my Mum and Dad and their part in the war effort to defeat Japan and Germany. I really treasure these movies. Thank you.
I do not even open the films which were colorized...in my opinion that is profanity. Greetings to you Madame from Toronto. I enjoy old British films from 40's/50's/60. Love all of them.
British - English - White - Race - Culture and Civilization permeated England before 1900. England’s political Elites felt guilty about their non - white imperialisms and as a liberal form of psychological compensation invited the former empires non - whites to emirate to England. And now the chickens have come home to roost. The same thing can happen to your country!
A gorgeously filmed WW II love story with true grit, with two excellent stars giving fine, believable performances. Any viewer of this film will surely feel like they've been transported back in time. Thanks for sharing this gem.
Thank you so much for this! I loved it! Both of my Grandfathers served in WW2. One was an engineer in the Merchant Navy and the other one served in the Home Guard. Both of my parents were children in the war. Everyone suffered. I have always been interested in both wars and love to watch the black and white films. I have never seen this one, and hope you will post some more like it. Lest We Forget.
Thanks for posting. I just signed up to your website. 1942 was pretty grim for England. They needed all the morale boosters they could come up with. This movie tweeked my heart strings, and I'm not English. I do appreciate the sentiments expressed by this show. Good cast of players. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Britain it is Britain! My parents were in Scotland and had bomes dropping around them all the time. Glasgow being the industrial city in the Empire. Kids made up games such as with the buzz bombs. Filled with only so much oil to reach Britain when it it ran out and went silent it fell kids would guess which part of the town it fell in. They would check the newspapers next day to see were it fell.
It was not grim only for England and by the way it was Great Britain which included Scotland Wales and N. Ireland not Just England, to say England alone and not include the other nations is to ignore them.
We have lost the United States also. We have replaced God in our society with crude, evil secularism. We are teaching our children that we are not a good or kind people, that we are racist and sexist! What mess!!
Great flick even with the minor details that some were complaining about. How many heart ache stories could be told during such a time? I know my Grandfather told me quite a few. Tku for post.
@johnwaller2886 I download it. RU-vid downloader filters out the ads. If I don't want to keep it, I delete it. If I do, I store it on a remote hard drive to conserve disc space.
Yeah, that BREXIT vote has ruined EVERYTHING! But that's what happens when enough idiots are led to ruin by their baser instincts. Saddest thing is they're not even able to see how horribly they've F’d up their future and those of their children. Hopefully the latest elections can begin to repair the horrible damage done.
It depends on the film. Fantastic movies are being made but you won’t often find them at the local multiplex. Unless you live in a city or its environs you have to hunt them down and you can still see them when they become available on streaming services or released on DVD (free at your local library).
@@snowflakemelter1172, a negative can not be proven. You seem to have received your knowledge second hand or grabbed things out of the air to use as cudgels when trolling comment boards.
1:33:14 Why would a nurse call a member of FRCS 'doctor'? Surely she would know that a member of the FRCS is a surgeon and addressed as 'mister'. I've known several surgeons in the UK and they all insisted, and were proud, that their title was 'mister' not 'doctor'.
@@charleslavers4563 that was a dumb movie, stupid ending. How can a guy laying in bed right after brain surgery be considered competent to give consent to marry? The doctor, girl's father, and pastor would never permit that to occur.
I like the idea of a "dumb waiter" up into the room. So why then did that woman carry that big heavy tray up the stairs? They should have one in all hotel rooms, and rooms in a house. Humm??? I vaguely recall coming upon that one time, but I cant think of where and when.
It would be difficult to impossible to put them in hotel rooms because of fire danger. Each dumb waiter would provide a chimney for smoke, toxic chemicals and fire to spread.
Joan Fontaine was mean. Mean Dog Fightin' mean, as Ma Joad might have put it. She hated her sister, Olivia de Havilland, and then went on to having estranged relationships with her own daughters because they were caught secretly seeing their Aunt Olivia behind Fontaine's back. Her two redeeming values were that she was a licensed pilot and a very good cook. I always liked Olivia better, not the least reason for which was that at the right angle she bore a striking resemblance to one of the greatest snipers in history: Lyudmila Pavlichenko, with 309 confirmed kills.
'You are in the army now" bad mistake because they have wing emblems on their shoulder's, it's the WAAF. American made movie with the usual mistakes and jibes.
Why were the WAAF marching to the RAF March Past? Hollywood not having a clue about things British, perhaps. Nor do British railways stations have Tracks; they have Platforms. I put up with one American playing a British soldier for 50 minutes but when Thomas Mitchell appeared as a British soldier I'd had enough. Mitchell was a great actor but he was hopeless trying to play a British soldier.
@@irish89055 Yes and they did a fine job too, then suffered vindictive persecution when they returned home to Ireland after the war, those that did return of course. We British were very glad to have them too.
If I had been the young lady @ 8:22 Violet I think, and the person said to take the makeup off because they don’t wear makeup in the “army” I would have retorted that I would leave it on because I wasn’t in the army, I was in the WAAF, the Womens Auxiliary Air Force, completely different entity to the Army. A little slip by the writers, and again @ 10:30+, the WAAF would have been ordered “Flight/Squadron Halt” the Army have Company(s) not the airforce. I think that because the military in the USA, at the time, didn’t have a separate airforce so drill orders were given in the Army way, and they didn’t realise/know that in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 all three services were independent and orders made in the way each service had adopted through their respective history.
