Middle Course
The Middle Course is a 1961 British low budget second feature ('B')[1] war film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Vincent Ball, Lisa Daniely and Peter Illing.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.The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Tinpot death-or-glory war film, peopled by theatrical characters spouting trite dialogue against unconvincing backgrounds."[4] 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.