this be one of my three all time favorite movie . my only quibble be that the director and peter yates and have too many cut show the actor individually instead of together a a scene and but the performance be so great i forgive him . albert finney and tom courtenay be absolutely marvelous while brilliant . the script be great and give a very good picture of life in the theatre during world war ii ( and and therefore and what it be like in the 30 as well ) . lot of great and subtle touch and lot of broad and overplayed stroke and all of it perfectly do . scene after scene just blow me away and and then there the heartbreaking climax .