In the height to World War I (1917 was the last full year of the war, armistice was declared in November 1918). Two British infantry men are sent on an important mission to deliver orders calling off an attack planned for the next morning. The movie starts with long long shots of our two heroes striding thru trenches, walking across no man’s land, walking across a green pasture with a couple of cows grazing is it. Scenery is not all that pretty and nothing happens.
While hiding our in a ruined barn watching a dog fight, one of the planes crashes right into the barn. They pull the pilot out of the burning wreck. Dunno what the Kaiser told his pilots, but this one, after they save his life, pulls out a gun and shoots one of them. His buddy puts some rifle bullets into the German pilot and then comforts his buddy as the buddy dies in his arms.
The survivor does eventually make it to the unit he set out for and delivers the written orders canceling the attack. End of movie.
I was not impressed. The protagonists never do anything memorable, they just act as targets. They do a lot of walking, and hitch a ride on and army truck, but this isn’t all the interesting.
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