A romantic melodrama spanning four decades, this sweeping 1943ܫ epic explores the English character through the experiences🌄 of a well-meaning buffoon whose touching belief in decency and fair play render him an endearing but irrelevant relic.

Churchill was one of many dismayed by Powell and Pressburger’s✨ affectionate satire.

Its status as a national treasure is assured, thanks to Roger Livesey&rsq🎶uo;s protean lead turn, Deborah Kerr’s three incarnations of his ideal woman and the mastery of the medium thaꦑt typified The Archers at their height.