I like Powell and Pressburger as much as the next film nut, but this boring adventure film about a British bomber crew trapped in the occupied Netherlands is just a bunch of talk and inaction.
The film starts out good enough with the British Bomber "B" for Bertie flying into England and crashing into a tower. It turns out that the crew had bailed out over the Netherlands and now has to find a way back to England. That's about it for action after 10 minutes into this film.
The rest of the film has the bomber crew being hid by the brave Neherlandians (?) from the Germans. The crew rides around on bikes, they go to church, the have a couple of good meals, they wear clogs and they talk and talk and talk and talk.
I doubt Powell and Pressburger fan Marty Scorsese will be showing up on a Criterion commentary track for this film anytime soon but you never know.
102 minutes.
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