Clive Brook

Clifford Evans

Jane Baxter

Wylie Watson

Philip Friend

Brefni O'Rorke

Charles Compton

Mary Jerrold

Irene Handl

Ronald Squire

Lily Kann

Kenneth Carten

Gordon Edwards

Neville Mapp

Martin Walker

George Woodbridge

Jill Craigie

Jeffrey Dell

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sydney Box

Eric Cross

Compton Bennett

Alex Vetchinsky

Vaughan N. Dean

Kenneth Horne

Theo Lageard

Paul Kelly

C.C. Stevens

Derick Williams

Jack Hildyard

Drama

The Flemish Farm

Two Cities Films

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

United Kingdom

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This is quite an interesting wartime story based around the efforts by some Belgian officers determined to retrieve the standard of their regiment after they were forced to bury it ahead of the advancing Nazis. "Jean Duclos" (Clifford Evans) has to smuggle his way into occupied territory and make it home safely with the flag. The story has a more emotionally driven twinge to it than many; putting life ad limb at risk to fetch something less tangible than a person or a secret plan seems curiously extravagant, yet as the film progresses we do get a sense of the underlying pride felt my many of these dispossessed of their homeland.. Unfortunately, it could have been doing with a stronger cast. This lot, along with some lacklustre direction from Jeffrey Dell, don't really install much jeopardy or menace into the story - and the pace is just a little too stroll-in-the-park. Worth a watch, though.

English