As something of a Puffin Asquith completist I naturally made a point of watching this on Talking Pictures yesterday. As a rule I tend to avoid British films that focus on one or more aspects of the military but I was pleasantly surprised at how Puffin put the ensemble cast through its paces. Apart from David Niven and Margaret Leighton, an unlikely married couple, the support was largely Second Eleven, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Noelle Middleton, Victor Maddern and they even wheeled out old Newtie Blick. The old adage that you can't go wrong with a courtroom drama holds up here albeit it's a courts martial rather than a civilian court with Niven in the dock and acting as his own defence lawyer. It all hangs together nicely and makes for solid entertainment.
Review of Court Martial
