World War I veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son.World War I veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son.World War I veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son.
- Singing Soldier
- (uncredited)
- Club Member
- (uncredited)
- George - Barman
- (uncredited)
- Shelter Delivery Man
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- Quotes
Young Bill Busby: Now you get this, Dad. If anyone's fat-headed enough to start a blinking, stupid war these days, he can count me out of it.
Old Bill: You wouldn't fight?
Young Bill Busby: Not me.
Old Bill: And you say that in front of her what lost her Dad in the last war.
Young Bill Busby: Look, I seen what happened to you, the last time; wasting the four best years of your life, sitting in the mud. And for what?
Old Bill: For a little place called England. Ever heard of it?
Young Bill Busby: Eh, Just about.
Old Bill: It's a place where you can do what you like; say what you like and live as you like. I thought it was worth fighting for. I thought your Mother was worth fighting for. I thought you was worth fighting for - then. Seems I was wrong.
Young Bill Busby: Yeah, do don't it?
This was a good effort at the time it was released -- in March of 1940, when the fighting, so far as the British were concerned, was on the Eastern Front, and a failed campaign in Norway. The French were still waiting in the Maginot Line, facing the Siegfried Line. It would take another couple of months before the Germans launched their blitzkrieg, took Belgium and the real war began, so far as British history was concerned, at Dunkirk.
As a result this looks like a very peculiar view of the Second World War, like Jan de Hartog's ERGENS IN NEDERLAND. Like many a movie made for the moment, its moment has passed.
- boblipton
- Jun 23, 2017
Details
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1