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Based on true story, 'Walking with the Enemy' is a gripping tale of WW II Hungary. However, a couple of characterisations seem awry. In the first place, Otto Skorzeny is turned into a nasty Adolf Eichmann type character, when he was in fact a combat commando who was acquitted of war crimes charges. Also, Ben Kingsley's portrayal of Regent Horthy is probably too noble - Horthy may have been basically decent, but he was also opportunistic, particularly in the earlier stages of the war. .

Interesting example of the 'cinema of La Cruzada'. By 1949 or more nuanced approach to the Spanish Civil War is possible. The director Arturo Ruiz Castillo was a former Republican and a friend and colleague of the poet Lorca.

The hero, played by Alfredo Mayo, is a moderate, non communist Republican who saves the life of a Marquis' daughter and journeys with her to the hillside shrine where pro-Nationalist Civil Guards and civilians have taken refuge.

Some effective scenes such as the aerial combat sequence and the chapel service under bombardment.

Meades has a certain style but his content isn't necessarily factual. He claims that thousands of Republican prisoners were worked to death at Valle de los Caídos. In fact, according to anti- Franco historian Paul Preston, the real figure of fatalities from building work there was 14. Meades seems to have the anti-Franco obsession common among British leftists (or pseudo-leftists) of a certain age.