Details

Release year: 1948

Storyline

A mother struggles to maintain normalcy at home as D-Day nears. With lodgers, absent children in the Navy, and no war job, she questions her choice to remain a housewife when her son's ship is damaged.

Top credits

Directors

Roy Ward Baker

Writers

Cast

Ursula Jeans — Martha Dacre
Cecil Parker — Geoffrey Radcliffe
Joan Hopkins — Helen
Derek Bond — Nigel

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Did you know

• Martha Dacre quotes from "Life a duty" by Ellen Sturgis Hooper (February 17, 1812 - November 3, 1848): "I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; / I woke, and found that life was Duty."

• The film opens with a screen displaying the statement that the setting is a "Naval Base somewhere in England ...". The following scene starts with a Southdown bus heading for the North End (of Portsmouth) pulling into a bus stop. There is also a scene on the A27 with Portchester Castle in the background. Along with other scenes these all indicate that the setting is Portsmouth.

• During the blackout as the air raid sirens are sounding, the lights of Portsmouth can be seen clearly in the background.