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Watch it for film history purposes. The Technicolor is amazing and rarely looked as good even in the decades that followed. The story is slightly engaging, somehow. The greatest strength is the renowned yet not well known enough Georges Perinal's (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Fallen Idol, The Blood of a Poet, and many of Rene Clair's gems from the '30s) work as DP gives the film its lush texture. Let's say the film has its moments. But when examined closely it is a stuffy British war saga, dashed in romance and romanticism. The latter playing like pre-WWII propaganda. It is certainly coherent and competently directed in every since, being under the keen, regimented eye of Hungarian transplant, Zoltan Korda (and his brother, not formally credited). Outside of a few moments of great writing, a handful of wonderful shots, the stuffiness is unbearable and ultimately suffocating. Yet, still recommended viewing for the cinephile that wants to delve deeper into the medium's past.

Usually Kafka or anything that can be referred to as Kafka-esque in/and film just works, as holds true with the animated short, A Country Doctor. A haunting adaption from Japanese artist Koji Yamammura. The animation is amazing, gripping, bizarre and startling, completely keeping with the dark, surreal tone of the film. It certainly posses the ability to rattle viewers like few animated films can. Animated shorts come and go, hell most feature length films of any kind come and go, but this haunting masterpiece will stay with you.