37 Replies to “The Way Ahead (1944) [War] [Drama]”

  1. Ha ha hah get a move on your light infantry not marines also film made 1944 no such place as acclesfield or duke of glendons but it is accurate to one thing they are going to Shrewsbury copthrone barracks home of light infantry listen to train announcements which Niven knew as he was Highland light infantry

  2. Excellent, really enjoyed this! Very realistic (as possible) depiction of the road from civilian to eager Army soldier – great work by a young David Niven. Thanks!

  3. Love the first piece of background music.
    'Old soldiers never die, the young ones wish they would'.,
    The words spoken are exactly the same as my dear old Dad said to me.
    'The young generation are spoiled and too soft to fight a war'.
    However…..even in this weird day and age it's the 'Young Generation' (Christ, I never imagined I would be saying this. Dads aren't cool, youngsters know everything but they die just the same) that hold the line when the enemy comes over the hill.
    Respects…

  4. This is romanticized. (The government looking for recruits from the few remaining men left at home). You were spat on here, if not in uniform. My dad was on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea when it was filmed. I was born that year. Dad didn't speak of it for fifty years, except when stressed. Then he would curse and shriek at the Japanese, while I worked milking cows and tending the calves chickens, and pigs alongside him. In 1993 after Mum died he spoke of bombed Palm Trees split in half, of dead bodies, of fellow Australian soldiers laying in blood, guts out, days old, in tropical heat. Of burying them. Dad lived in fear. Suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) untreated, in those days, for the rest of his life — Rest in peace Dad.

  5. The British should have NEVER EVER fought war one. They didn't have to but decided to. The long draw out war hurt France and especially England financially very badly. This led directly to the extremely harsh armistice that focused on trying to wring as much money from the Germans as they possibly could. This in turn made the Germans extremely bitter and angry and completely prevented any healing that was possible, as it would have with any proud nation… They made it where not only would many tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Germans would starve but also tried to engineer things where it would be completely impossible for them to recover for decades, it ever. The United states, who was totally against the treaty but was fun over by France and England tried to end run the consequences by loaning Germany huge sums, over 7 billion. This lasted until the market collapse and then made things actually worse than they would have been. England didn't even stop think blockade that was starving Germany until long after the war, greatly increasing the bigger feelings as Germans starved.
    If France and England would have been even slightly humanr war two would never have happened.
    As it was it condemned the British empire to a slow death that began then and finally completed with England's near bankruptcy at the end of the second war.

  6. Niven (one of my brother's favorite actors) was in an elevator one time. And a woman looked at him and said, "Didn't you used to be David Niven?"…from his autobiography. He seemed like a decent "chap".

  7. I can't watch these old war films anymore. The men who fought in them, on both sides, are now considered by their privileged and pestilential grandchildren to be nothing but straight white male oppressive racist homophobes. Their descendants are freely and without external constraint destroying the homelands these men, again, on both sides, fought for; and all the while congratulating themselves on their uniquely superior morality. It's too sad.

  8. Written by the author of such classic spy novels as Journey into Fear, Topkapi, The Mask of Dimitrios, Cause for Alarm, Judgement at Delchev…Eric Ambler

  9. Good work lads…….from an American cousin. Sorry about that dust up in 1776 , but you have to admit you had it coming. Next pint on the U.S. .

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