Patriotic romantic drama set in WWII Britain about the life of Clive Candy, elderly British army officer who believes that war is still fought with honour between gentlemen.

Patriotic romantic drama set in WWII Britain about the life of Clive Candy, elderly British army officer who believes that war is still fought with honour between gentlemen.

Churchill tried to have the film surpressed due to its sympathetic portrayal of a German officer friend of Candy's, on the basis that it would make the British sympathetic to the Nazis at a time when the course of the war was yet undecided.

The colour is admirable; the script, and its delivery by the actors, brilliant; and the English atmosphere of understatement well maintained throughout. Each individual part is carefully built up and the film as a whole repays the evident care which has been lavished upon it.

Starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook.