The stock footage of the Spitfires involved in the Battle of Britain has been reversed so that they travel from right to left across the screen.
The squadron codes are back-to-front.
Clifford Evans apparently hitches a lift in a pantechnicon by getting into the vehicle whilst it is moving.
But the side that he gets in on would be the drivers seat,as it is set in Belgium.
A Belgian pilot Jean Duclos who escaped to England returns to the titular Flemish farm to rescue his regimental flag. Based on a true story it had the potential to be a gripping film but turns out to be just average.
Only last night I saw people being coerced by the use of torture into treading on Christian icons and imported items being brought into 17th Century Japan being inspected for concealed crucifixes in Martin Scorsese's 'Silence'; and today I saw the significance still given to inspirational objects such as the Belgian flag that men (and women) were still prepared in the 20th Century to risk their lives to preserve and smuggle to safety.Boasting an evocative title; although clearly made very quickly and cheaply in a variety of formats ranging from obvious back projection and models to beautiful sylvan location work - and with both Belgians & Germans mainly speaking in received English - the obvious sincerity lying behind this film and the moving music "specially composed" (as the credits put it) by Ralph Vaughan Williams makes the whole thing touching to watch.
This is all about the hidden Belgium Air Force flag that patriots long to get out of the country before the invading Nazis find it. The film covers preparation for the invasion (and ultimate take-over), the burial of the flag in a field, its re-discovery and how the freedom fighters manage to get it out of the country.
Made during the second world war when people were really suffering the pain (not just remembering it), this low budget simple tale of high ideals and patriotism is more powerful than many a later battlefield re-enactment. A tense commando operation is blended with touching personal scenes such as a mother and son meeting in occupied territory but too afraid to recognize each other.
It's early in the war and some of the Belgian Air Force pilots manage to escape in their Hurricanes to England, where they join the RAF, which needs all the pilots it can get.However, they've left their regimental flag behind, buried somewhere on the grounds of a Flemish farm.
This film was written and directed ? by my great aunt Jill Craigie,who sadly i never met.
This is a propaganda film made in 1942,at a time when people needed help to believe in a successful end to the war at a time when not a lot was happening.It has to be said that the best British propaganda films were those that poked fun at the Nazis.
THE FLEMISH FARM is a British WW2 propaganda movie made contemporaneously with the war itself. The setting is, as the title would suggest, Belgium, where Allied forces send an airman into occupied territory in order to fight for the honour of the regiment.
