This monochrome release from Powell and Pressburger is a much more subdued affair — but that diminished scale suits a film about a kind of stiff-upper-lip domestic heroism which was understated, unseen and largely unsung during the war years,

The strength and confidence in Powell and Pressburger’s film-making is a pleasure -- as is their distinctive love of adventure and romance.

One of the period's most piercing, emotionally anguished romances.

An atypically modest, B&W drama that nonetheless has great power, and surprise flights of noirish surrealism...