This message is partly In response to Eric F's earlier review. My low "star rating" is actually in reference to the poor quality of the print that Hulu has made available on their site. This movie is actually quite good, and a complete and clean print of this movie has been shown on Turner Classic Movies many, many times. Do yourself a favor and watch it there when it is next scheduled, if you can.

A near-classic, definitely worthy of restoration. Hopefully, somewhere there is a cleaner and more complete copy to start from. The soundtrack is painfully awful; turning up the volume only serves to increase the noise and distortion. You actually need to understand what people are saying in order to discern the various plot twists; exactly who knows what and when is essential to the underlying trajectory.The acting by the principle players is rather stiff and wooden by Hollywood standards, but typically British, especially for it's day. Central casting seemed to gather former school-chums eager to play army again. The romantic elements were convincing, but needed to be more tightly woven into the fabric of the storyline in order to be truly moving. There is no comparing this to Casa Blanca, for example.It is the clever script, Robert Donat's quirky character rendition, and a fine performance by Glynis Johns that sets this movie apart.

instead of stone age beduins trying to kill the chit out of you, costing you countless kid's lives and $4 Trillion dollars and counting! War was terrible, but made some weird kind of sense. The good old days.Well, one can only reflect and wonder. The sound track doesn't help an English accent that sounds like all actors were gargling razor blades and attempting to talk with mouths full of salt water taffy. Let me quote some: "Frufff ffffyff fuff lshg fssyhshh. Peter Glluff the shclumaker" Glad I caught that last fruffa, Could have missed the entire phuckin plot.I can see Mom and Grandpa sitting on folding chairs, raptfully paying attention. The good old days.. And I must add "Frudfdf dflaaadff a fgclurrt a fodrly" to all our English buddies.Could have been all those rotting straggling molars.. I might be wrong there.TTFN

Some movies you have to ignore the holes and just enjoy. This would be one of those. Just enjoy watching the bad old Nazi's get their "what for" by British Agent Terence Stevenson.Some scenes are missing, while they didn't advance the story, they did help with filling it out. For example, the original opening involved shots after a bombing raid and then arrival of Capt.Stevenson to the hospital. It spent a few seconds explaining why there was a child still there while the bomb was being de-activated.The image-transfer was well, I could imagine how fragile the original film could be. The audio transfer could have been better, the first 10min sounded like raindrops on metal in the distance. Some more attention to the volume, bass, and treble was needed by the transferer. But, again, it's an old movie and not every one will receive the level of attention done by those who recover movies for Criterion Collection.I still enjoyed watching it and hope others do to.

This film was extremely popular when it was released, although not always receiving good reviews from the critics. This print needs an audio cleanup, and Hulu is still putting in far too many commercials.