TimR

This is a brilliant film.

I had always enjoyed John Mills' performances. In this, he goes far beyond anything I had seen him do before. He creates an intensely sympathetic character out of a man who might have been a martinet. I found myself understanding him from the inside.

The sequence where Barrow realizes what he has done by allowing Sinclair off without punishnment is something I won't forget.

There is a great deal here, as there so often in outstanding British films: the specific details of class differences and the military world are a prism that allow for a larger understanding.

It was fascinating for me to see the England-Scotland relationship from the Scots perspective. It's unusual for me, as an American, to find it any film or television show.

Also, Dennis Price surprised me. He gave a fine performance, but there seemed to be something wrong with him inside. I don't mean that he simply looked older. Something had happened to him since A Canterbury Tale- a coarsening. I don't know how else to put it. It seemed very strange and sad.

wadsy

I read, or saw, a quote from John Mills where he stated that He & Guinness were

offered either part & that they tossed a coin to see who played which. This

sounds flippant & unlikely but I'm sure I heard it somewhere!

cretancorrespo

I thought it fair to mention the contribution of Malcolm Arnold, whose music did so much to enhance the proceedings in this film.