The Way Ahead (1944)

Directors

Carol Reed

Cast

David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer, Hugh Burden

The story

In the days after the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War, recently commissioned Second Lieutenant Jim Perry, a pre-war Territorial private soldier, is posted to the Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry, known as the "Dogs", to train replacements to fill its depleted ranks. He is joined by Sergeant Ned Fletcher, a veteran of the British Expeditionary Force. In contrast to Perry, the rest of the squad is shocked to have been conscripted to the army.

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