Fondly remembered as a Sunday TV fixture, this Second World War yarn about the crew of an army ambulance stuck in the desert achieves classic status through its powerfully straightforward storytelling and a quality supporting cast. John Mills is dying for a beer and allows a mysterious passenger (Anthony Quayle) onboard their lost vehicle simply because he's carrying a case of gin. The combination of an increasingly irrational Mills, the chance to Quayle might be a spy and the presence of the German army all around them makes for a tense war classic.

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Noel Coward, who wrote, scored and co-ordnated this film, won a special Oscar for oustanding production achievement. The story of a sunken British destroyer, HMS Torrin, is told in flash backs by survivors as they cling to a life raft. Coward himself gives a characteristically clipped and somewaht expressionless performance as the captain of a destroyer, but the film is still a huge achievement.

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