The Middle Course is a 1961 British low budget second feature ('B') war film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Vincent Ball, Lisa Daniely and Peter Illing. It was written by Brian Clemens and produced by The Danzigers.
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Plot
During World War II, a Canadian pilot crash lands in a small French village occupied by German forces. The villagers find a useful ally in the young flyer, but the Germans become anxious to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance.
Cast
Vincent Ball as Cliff
Lisa Daniely as Anna
Peter Illing as Gromik
Roland Bartrop as Paul
Marne Maitland as Renard
Robert Rietti as Jacques
André Maranne as Franz
André Mikhelson as Commandant
Jan Conrad as Herman
John Serret as Leverne
William Abney as Jaghorst
Yvonne André as Martine
Julian Sherrier as villager
Donald Tandy as Sgt. Wilhelm
Jacques Cey as Pierre
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Tinpot death-or-glory war film, peopled by theatrical characters spouting trite dialogue against unconvincing backgrounds."
TV Guide called the film "a predictable type of war drama that went out of fashion in the US ten years before this was made, but probably will always be resurrected in a nation that suffered so much at the time."