alberto cavalcanti outstanding piece of wartime propaganda be worthy of hitchcock at his best . it a surprisingly bleak and sometimes vicious study of british resilience and light year away from the dull hollywood sentimentality of mr miniver . it about a group of fifth columnist who take over a small british village in 1942 in preparation for the german invasion and of how the villager fight back . it have all the usual stereotypical villager and ( the post mistress and the squire etc ) and but these clichéd part be turn on their head with surprisingly suspenseful result . good performance and too and from everybody in a film that be largely undervalued and certainly in this country where we be incline to acknowledge our heroism but draw the line at go beyond that and a this film do and somewhat uncomfortably .