Enjoy the Sublime Details, Not Much Story

Where else are you going to see the delightful old WWII version of the 'hully gully' called Palais Glide danced, or the musical tunes used as air ward warnings and another tune for 'all clear' (in this case Colonel Bogey's March). Gordon Jackson at his most youthful was quite endearing though if this was a David Lean film it would have been John Mills. I love when the old father of the two sisters left all alone to work as an air-raid warden comes home a bachelor's pigsty of a house - it was a funny comic turn. Surprising amount of talk about food (rumors of a 'bit of fish' for sale, tea with saccharine and women endlessly arguing about what to buy with their clothing coupons. Literally scores of great details fill this with authentic interest that make this worthwhile and solid. Not much story but a series of vignettes.