Just ended up watching this film for the second time and not because its that good a film, more for a want of anything better.
It's made at the fag end of World War II as I imagine, a kind of propaganda film of the we're all in the same boat variety.
This notion is woven as a thread throughout the movie, popping up in different guises.
One of the most convoluted being after a USAF plane crash, in the vicinity of a west country village. The aircraft of course has a yank flag, the decision is made to present it to the local school. The Duke makes a ceramonial occasion of it, but this is where it gets very contrived. The kid he hands it to is supposed to be a school pupil, but and here's the Duke's speech to the lad (paraphrased). "Your ancestor left this village and travelled on the Mayflower, to the country where this flag comes from" so of course who better?
Because we have two stars of the silver screen Neagle and Harrison they're of course of the upper class "don't you know old bean" in their stately pile. With dear old Robert Morley as the Grand Old Duke of the Manor.
They're living just the same as the rest of us, having to vacate it for the War Effort.
The romantic couple Neagle and Harrison turned into an infernal triangle, when the yank muscled in chancing his arm.
Quite appropriate given the apparent want of his compatriots in both world wars, last in and claimed the Star Prize.
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