I rated this film 7/10 and in my opinion is Patricia Roc's best film as Celia Crowson.She gives a sensitive performance of an every day girl caught up in WWII who must do her bit for the war effort.While waiting for her assessment interview she sees a poster and fantasises being accepted into the WRAF/Wrens/Womens army corps/Land Girls or nursing assisting good looking officers, only to be asked to prosaically help out in a factory as "Mr Bevan needs a million women" to make the weapons, aeroplanes and assorted war material.
At the heavy engineering factory she finds camaraderie in similarly placed women and romance with an air gunner in the RAF Sgt.Fred Blake (a very young Gordon Jackson).With all his daughters helping the war effort in different jobs and living away from home, Celias father Mr Crowson has to fend for himself and as he has no women to care for him, he has to survive in rather hand to mouth fashion after doing his duty in the Home Guard.There is sadness in store for Celia but the film ends on a hopeful note as the producers realised many families lost members of their family but the fight must continue in 1943.This is almost the same today for forces families whose sons and daughters are helping with the NATO presence in Afghanistan.
At the heavy engineering factory she finds camaraderie in similarly placed women and romance with an air gunner in the RAF Sgt.Fred Blake (a very young Gordon Jackson).With all his daughters helping the war effort in different jobs and living away from home, Celias father Mr Crowson has to fend for himself and as he has no women to care for him, he has to survive in rather hand to mouth fashion after doing his duty in the Home Guard.There is sadness in store for Celia but the film ends on a hopeful note as the producers realised many families lost members of their family but the fight must continue in 1943.This is almost the same today for forces families whose sons and daughters are helping with the NATO presence in Afghanistan.