
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
Cast

Bernard Miles
Colonel Barton-Barrington

Rosamund John
Hazel Broome

Niall MacGinnis
Jimmy Bancroft

Jean Gillie
Nancy Forester

Lucie Mannheim
Russian Sniper
Christopher Steele
Reverend Kingsley

Brefni O'Rorke
Uncle Arthur

George Carney
Whimbrel

Wylie Watson
Crasker
Lyonel Watts
Silver
Scott Harrold
Shuttleworth
Arthur Burne
Hambling

John Salew
Pickering

Marjorie Rhodes
Mrs. Pickering
John Rae
McDougall
Ann Wilton
Miss Pennyman

Ernest Butcher
Tommy Fairchild

Grey Blake
Captain Dawson

Stuart Latham
Corporal Philpotts

Johnnie Schofield
Sergeant Dawkins

Ian Fleming
Schoolmaster

Katie Johnson
Miss Pyman
Joan Sterndale-Bennett
Rose
Sam Wilkinson
Commissionaire
David Keir
Professor
Sydney Benson
President of A.B.O.

Vida Hope
Railway Porter (uncredited)

Gordon McLeod
Phillipson (uncredited)
Crew

Bernard Miles
Director, Writer, Producer
Charles Saunders
Director, Writer
Douglas Myers
Editor
Ray Sturgess
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Eric Cross
Director of Photography
William Sistrom
Producer
Herbert Smith
Associate Producer
Charles Tasto
Sound Recordist
Desmond Dew
Sound Recordist
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Noel Mewton-Wood
Music
Alex Vetchinsky
Art Direction
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