Mai Zetterling is really rather good here in one of her first films and one of her best. Basil Dearden is an all round director and also one of his better films. The beginning it seems that perhaps there is just too much about the family and villagers hostility to the German girl and maybe why he married her but this was only a couple of years after the war. In the last half hour we really get another idea when her brother also appears and he feels that she should not be so friendly to the English. Certainly the last thirty minutes are thrilling and Zetterling began to looked really lovely but all is possibly resolved in the end.