ICE COLD IN ALEX is often thought of as " A classic British war film " along the same lines as say THE DAM BUSTERS . It does share the same characteristics as British war films of its day , not to mention the fact it gets shown on rainy weekend afternoons with frightening regularity as do many " Classic British war films but in many ways it`s an epic adventure of man vs environment using the second world war as a backdrop rather than man vs man in a military conflict
What backs this theory of mine up is that two of the main protagonists are female ( Even though one of them is neurotic ) , traditionally women only feature in war films as a love interest to give the hero someone to come back to after bombing Jerry and the second world war is only really featured to set up the story , in fact you could easily have set this movie in the 19th century with a bunch of pilgrims going on a desert trek to find an ancient city and you`d still have basically the same movie
Having said all that it is good to see the amount of respect shown between the two foes . Without doubt the North African campaign of WW2 was by far the cleanest campaign of that coinflict with atrocities being far rarer than they were in the Pacific and Eastern front campaigns
What backs this theory of mine up is that two of the main protagonists are female ( Even though one of them is neurotic ) , traditionally women only feature in war films as a love interest to give the hero someone to come back to after bombing Jerry and the second world war is only really featured to set up the story , in fact you could easily have set this movie in the 19th century with a bunch of pilgrims going on a desert trek to find an ancient city and you`d still have basically the same movie
Having said all that it is good to see the amount of respect shown between the two foes . Without doubt the North African campaign of WW2 was by far the cleanest campaign of that coinflict with atrocities being far rarer than they were in the Pacific and Eastern front campaigns