"Goodbye, you old stick-in-the-mud," one tearful wife bleats. The scenes of parting are poignant in their nostalgia for unformed emotional expression. Their husbands were rounded up and sent in lorries to concentration camps. In addition, with those high cheekbones and that generous mouth, she was impossibly beautiful.īased on the first part of Nevil Shute's novel, the film recreates what really happened to a group of British women and children after the Japanese occupied Malaya in World War Two. Two years later she made Carve Her Name With Pride and her position as the saint of J Arthur Rank studios was assured. Once the English rose, she became a symbol of defiance against the forces of evil. Young men looked up to her with respect, rather than lust. Virginia McKenna, with her blonde boy's haircut, became the nation's sweetheart. Everything the British Empire once stood for is here - grit, courage, fair play, indomitability, initiative and lips that stay stiff without artificial aids. Its popularity has not diminished, as it turns up on television at regular intervals. This was the most successful British film of 1956.
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