(Thursday 16th January / 8 pm / £5/4)
(Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger / 1944 / UK / 124 minutes / Certificate U)

A year after the success of their grand The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Powell and Pressburger returned with this altogether more low-key drama, both an offbeat detective story and an examination of Anglo-American relations during World War 2. Suffused with the directors' much-celebrated neo-romanticism and elegantly capturing the mysterious beauty of Kent countryside, this wistfully elegiac meditation on the British national character is easily the equal of the Archers' more celebrated masterpieces.