The Way Ahead

Its great virtue is that it is written about a group of quite commonplace men who have to endure the dirty, tiresome, and murderous business of war as best they can rather than about the picturesque band of heroes usually dispatched from Hollywood.

Direction by Carol Reed is competent, and undoubtedly accounts for the underlying genuineness of the picture as a semi-documentary.

A warm and touching tribute to the British Army infantryman.

Meticulous in its avoidance of Hollywood heroics and refreshingly simple in its few romantic touches.