I am, of course, judging a film that was released in 1941 and involves a Polish airman seconded to the RAF in 2010 after just watching it for the first time virtually seventy years later when flaws that were either unnoticed or overlooked in the middle of a global war loom as large as the icebergs waiting to scuttle the Titanic. Though most of the other reviews I've read here are, on the whole, unsympathetic, no one appears to have noticed the almost total lack of chemistry between Anton 'Tilly' Walbrook and Sally Gray. Offscreen, of course, Walbrook was a well-known homosexual but in those days the general public would have been totally unaware of his sexual preference and attributed the lack of chemistry to unfortunate casting. As everyone seems to note the background music was excellent and Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto does a lot to distract from the clichéd plot and wooden acting. This is one of s series of 'forgotten' British films dating largely from the 40s and 50s; it's the first one I've seen and by and large it deserves to be forgotten, let's hope that not all the titles do.
Review of Suicide Squadron
