Top billed cast

1. 

   David Niven

   Lieutenant Jim Perry

2. 

   Stanley Holloway

   Pvt. Ted Brewer

3. 

   James Donald

   Pvt. Evans Lloyd

4. 

   John Laurie

   Pvt. Luke

5. 

   Leslie Dwyer

   Pvt. Sid Beck

6. 

   Hugh Burden

   Pvt. Bill Parsons

7. 

   Raymond Huntley

   Pvt. Herbert Davenport

8. 

   Jimmy Hanley

   Pvt. Geoffrey Stainer

9. 

   William Hartnell

   Sgt. Ned Fletcher

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-30

David Niven heads the cast in this engagingly quirky tale that amusingly and poignantly depicts just how the British Army managed to fight during WWII. He is the officer in charge of a collection of men of all ages and from many different backgrounds as they are slowly, but surely, coaxed, cajoled and bullied into a fighting unit that has cohesion, loyalty and friendship. Their training regime would test the best of us, and is carried out with a decent smattering of whinging and groaning, but also with strong senses of humour and of purpose before they are eventually deployed overseas and meet...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• flashback
• army life
• unity