I suffered this due to kind pressure from a friend. I saw in one of our TV magazines that it had three stars. So giving in I watched it. The presence of Constance Cummings, a great actress was promising and the scenery was sentimentally Vaughan Williams in its rolling fields. Then the film moved from the WW2 years to the worst Ye Olde England I have seen on screen, and the naughty Normans were in power. It was acted badly and I wondered how good or bad Amateur Dramatic companies were in 1941. After this was the Armada and the backdrops of villages bad beyond belief. Constance Cummings re-appeared and tackled the dire dialogue as best as she could. And so it went on; a whole litany of England ( let us forget the rest of the UK ) under the dreadful heel of the ' foreigners '. I got very tired of all this and its dubious simplicity. A mess of a film in cinematic terms. A lot of sound and fury signifying.... I leave it up to you viewers to decide