A British romantic drama; A story set in London and the Far East about a Wren and a Captain who meet by chance during an air-raid in London, 1941. They eventually fall deeply in love and marry. The spends her short embarkation leave together, but their hopes are tragically destroyed after the fall of Singapore.
The film has a promising beginning, building the story well, but the second act dips from plausible, realistic drama to melodrama. The third act becomes ultimately absorbing, however. Finally it falls to sentimentality and a sharp conclusion which is implausible. The prologue and epilogue bookends deliver, weightily, a legal flaw which bring stark realities and a provocative theme, but for a film audience a problem unresolved.
Anne Neagle gave a brilliant performance of first rate acting. With Wilding they had a great chemistry despite the rather conventional dialogue. It has an admirable all round cast nonetheless.
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