“An opportunity to indulge in the sort of cinematic ecstasy that makes us obsessed with movies in the first place!”
—Time Out New York

“Violence gains the upper hand in the second half of the movie, with a harshness that has no equivalent in British cinema of the period. Shots are fired in the back, the Germans who lob grenades at women and children are skewered on bayonets and finished off with blows of a gun butt. Cavalcanti never refuses to delve into the consequences of violence … He never hides the price that must be paid.”
—Betrand Tavernier

A British wartime propaganda classic. In a rural English village — the kind of place where the vicar peddles his bicycle from house to house and the butcher knows the families’ orders before they come in — a special Nazi infiltration squadron, disguised as British soldiers, is quartered. The idea is that these soldiers will be the advance guard of a land invasion. Unless, that is, the picturesque locals discover the plot and fight back with every tool at their disposal, repelling the insidious plot. New 4K restoration.