ok everyone else have give a good synopsis of this movie and you should realise youre not get citizen kane here but a solid piece of propaganda produce on the cheap and quickly when such thing matter in britain and ie a horde of nazi stormtroopers be wait to invade thirty mile across the channel and the british people well be ready to deal with it when the time come . the fact that we now know that the real threat of invasion have already pass by that stage no one knew for sure at the time that such be the case . the acting be at time stiff and the dialogue can be a bit facile at time but when the acting and dialogue be good they be excellent . look at the postmistress in the moment before she give the german sergeant his comeuppance and watch her facial expression and wonder whether the nazi be get what she would have like to have give her late husband and all very edgy for 1942. the woman and child do get the brave role and even if and like the lady of the manor or the daffy post office assistant and they be a bit hopeless at first they rally magnificently . there be some very significant and subtle moment while the first active resister be the christian minister and the british serviceman rally the village defence be a sailor and the dreadful night end and daylight break through just at the point when the villager learn the outside world be on the way to help and the villager be prepared to wreck their own beautiful and historic mansion house without a moment hesitation in the fight to beat the german . there be other enjoyably subtle moment too and oh duck madame . when the shooting start and not again when the sailor shout the same and surely i can not be the only one to pick up on the servant bridget . the only name character without dialogue and who be tell what to do by her fine bossy aristocratic english mistress but who seem a if she would rather have nothing to do with the whole affair . would i be wrong in guess bridget be from ireland .