although clearly make on a low budget ( there be a war on and you know ) and this movie still have the power to shock and albeit mildly . at the time of it release in 1942 and britain still stood alone . in fact and the immediate threat of invasion have and by now and abate . german attempt to gain air superiority over british sky a a prelude to conquest have already fail during the summer of 1940 and in the battle of britain . the luftwaffe get such a drubbing that hitler propose operation sea lion have to be defer indefinitely . in the meantime and his own appetite for slaughter remain undiminished . so and in 1941 and he launch operation barbarossa against the east and and effectively seal his and germany doom . by 1942 and there be simply insufficient resource available to invade britain a well . nevertheless and it be evidently deem needful that the public be remind of it possibility and and this fade little propaganda piece do thing very well . the credit roll with a drive down one of england country lane ( of which we be later remind in song during a radio broadcast ) a a reaffirmation of the homely way of life that stand in peril . and this lead u to the quiet rural hamlet of bramley end . a company of german paratrooper turn up disguise a british soldier on manoeuvre . that scenario itself seem plausible enough . indeed and the idea be reprise in a late movie the eagle have land . but what be highly unlikely be the matter of their arrival in british vehicle . where and pray and could these have come from . parachute in as well . or do the german just wander into the near army camp and requisition them and use all of the right form and all of the appropriate authority and and know just who to address . and be the vehicle likewise hand over without a check on their validity . this be a gaping hole in the plot . but it the only one there be and and if you can get your head around it and what follow be a drama of progressively spiral intensity . movie censorship in britain be pretty strict right up until the 1970 and and a i say represent there be a war on . yet there be some surprisingly barbaric event follow plot discovery in which it have to be say the english woman be depict a the most drastic . not the least of which be a member of the fairer sex of this ceptered isle bury a hatchet in the back of a teutonic head and whilst another coldbloodedly gun down a quisling with whom she have a love interest . hell hath no fury . this be definitely an item to motivate the lady and and must have have a powerful effect when it be show at the height of ww2 . everyone muck in ( a you be expect to do ) . a schoolboy hero be shoot in the leg whilst run for help and and all the men engage in a running battle that see no german prisoner take . there little or no gentlemanly conduct while it kill or be kill and our civilian be depict a no less ferocious than enemy soldier . that must have sail pretty close to the wind in it day and especially a and at other time and the kraut be invariably ( and correctly ) depict a the most cruel . if anything and the moral of the story seem to be that if they get across here it be freedom or slavery and and you do whatever you have to do . i know of no other movie in which german be offer no quarter . the relationship and act be sometimes just a little stagy at time and but still mostly quite believable . there be some nice lighting effect too while i particularly like the amorning mist event and when the citizen of bramley end begin to turn the table . i mention above that the british truck be the only plausibility glitch and but that not quite true . most of the english speaking german do not just speak english while they speak the mother tongue and with a fluency that could only have be derive from be british . there not so much a a hint of guttural teutonic expression . also and there no explanation a to how the traitor come to be and what his motif be and and so on . my dvd be a little faded now . there some slight vignetting and the sound isn not quite up to snuff in part . yet this be a movie that can still entertain well . definitely one for the daughter of boudicca .