Thursday, 3 October 2013

WW2 spy games

Cottage to Let (1941)

Directed by Anthony Asquith this film stars Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills, Carla Lehmann and George Cole. During WW2 one of the new arrivals at a scientists country estate in Scotland is a spy but who is it?

This spy film is pretty standard fare and fits in well with other period propaganda and paranoia pieces. Most of the plot is fairly simple and as you would expect, it is not an overly complex mystery but it does give away the game a little too early to be very gripping. George Cole in the child evacuee role has the potential to be an annoying no it all but actually works pretty well with in the film.


3/5

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