Best scenes (spoilers)

Yep!

"You're a true vulgarian, aren't you!"

The last ten or fifteen minutes when the sailor and his dad innocently hook up again with the quisling (Leslie Banks) had an atmosphere of tension that very few modern films have ever evoked in me. For such a creaky old film, with some really hammy acting, some aspects of it were brilliantly done, like those few scenes - and the denouement, where the vicar's daughter takes things into her own hands, of course.

"When the postmistress kills the German and is almost overcome with the horror of what she has done"

I thought that moment was really powerful and occurs again when the two girls have the rifles and are shooting at the German soldiers out of the upstairs windows of the manor. The girl on the left becomes faint when she hits a soldier for the first time. I really liked the way people rose to defend themselves but never become these hardened soldiers but instead were kind of terrified of what they found themselves capable of. It makes them and the whole story much more humanistic.

Yes the postmistress scene stands out as it's the first killing of one of the Germans, I believe, and was well built up. Great acting from the woman playing Mrs Collins.

I agree that the violence was shocking at times but that adds to its power especially as a propaganda piece. I found the brutal way that Daisy was treated by her German captor difficult to bear.

I give my respect to those who have earned it; to everyone else, I'm civil.