Coming out the same year as that Academy Award wining best film, this British drama shows what could have happened before husband and wife Frederic March and Myrna Loy were reunited in the opening. This shows reasons why war is not often over when it's over, the nightmares caused by the situation that captain Michael Redgrave goes through, first in a concentration camp and later in a prisoner of war camp. As an officer, he's allowed to correspond with his wife, Rachel Kempson, but the audience is aware that he is not the man he claims to be but an escaped Czech prisoner from Dachau successfully passing himself off as British.
Like "The Best Years of Our Lives", this dealt with more than just the top billed leads, and there's an impressive roster of popular British actors of the time dramatizing their issues. Thd Germans running the prison camp are presented with fairness, treating the P. O. W.'s according to the laws of the updated 1929 Geneva convention. That doesn't stop discord and attempted escape, and it's intriguing to see how Redgrave gets away with his deception. It's also a love story with Redgrave falling in love with Kempson whom he's never met since she's unaware that her husband is actually dead. Some viewers might find this to be unbelievable and corny, but I was quite touched by it.
Like "The Best Years of Our Lives", this dealt with more than just the top billed leads, and there's an impressive roster of popular British actors of the time dramatizing their issues. Thd Germans running the prison camp are presented with fairness, treating the P. O. W.'s according to the laws of the updated 1929 Geneva convention. That doesn't stop discord and attempted escape, and it's intriguing to see how Redgrave gets away with his deception. It's also a love story with Redgrave falling in love with Kempson whom he's never met since she's unaware that her husband is actually dead. Some viewers might find this to be unbelievable and corny, but I was quite touched by it.