Extremely dour Gainsborough melodrama, which audiences disliked as much as the critics, probably because Grey isn't playing the sort of ball-breaker Margaret Lockwood does so well. David Niven is the Major who takes money owed to him from the company safe and then faces a court-martial. He gives one of his best ever performances in this tense courtroom drama. As a drama it pays more attention to the minutiae of court procedure than the machinations of the plot, but that's part of its appeal. Niven's low-key, human performance always manages bring us back to the personal level when things get overheated.
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Not one of the classic series, this is a so-so naval comedy starring farceurs Brian Reece and David Tomlinson as the sailor and the politician who accidentally swap identities. A.E. Matthews scene-stealing. Script adapt . Virginia McKenna is war-heroine Violette Szabo who joined the British Secret Service and worked behind enemy lines. It's grim and downbeat with a strong central performance.