This is fascinating as a time document of workers' conditions after the war, competing with impossible circumstances, here trying to save a factory from going to the dogs by taking it over themselves, and ultimately, when difficulties and adversities threaten to overwhelm them, get some well needed help from the catcher in the rye, the old boss himself. One of many curiosities here is the appearance of Comptom MacKenzie himself in the role of Sir Robert Dysart, but generally the acting here is superb all the way, especially by the young Kenneth More, the director and producer Bernard Miles himself, Basil Radford and actually every one. Although you don't understand much of the details and the working circumstances of 1950, the film is extremely vivid, everyone putting his heart in it, even the Xenobians make a very convincing impression, and the film gives a thrilling insight into working men's lives and conditions after the war.
