the school. The vicar reads out the names of the crew who died to save the village. David is seen in the co-pilots seat flying with his paratroop unit to parachute into France (implying but not stating that it is D-Day). The film ends with a poem by Walt Whitman regarding the relationship between the USA and Britain. Cast Anna Neagle as Lady Patricia Fairfax, granddaughter of the Duke of Exmoor Rex Harrison as Major David Bruce Dean Jagger as Staff Sergeant John Patterson Robert Morley as The Duke of Exmoor Nancy Price as Mrs Wilson Dame Irene Vanbrugh as Mrs. Mildred Catchpole, cousin of the Duke of Exmoor Jane Darwell as Mrs Patterson Elliott Arluck as Sergeant Benjie Greenburg Walter Hudd as Vicar Edward Rigby as Innkeeper Cecil Ramage as Trewhewy Irene Manning as Herself - U.S.O. Singer Francis Pierlot as Postman Aubrey Mallalieu as Bates Michael Shepley as Lieutenant Lutyens Notable supporting players included Charles Victor, Ronald Shiner, Percy Walsh, Brenda Bruce, Shelagh Fraser, John Slater, Alvar Lidell, David Horne, Robert Farnon and Carroll Gibbons. The Canadian Band of the AEF appears with bandleader/arranger Captain Robert Farnon. They filmed their sequence in late 1944. Reception Wilcox later said Rex Harrison was the greatest actor whom he had ever directed "without a doubt". He planned on making more films with Harrison but the actor received a contract offer from 20th Century Fox and left for Hollywood. Box Office The film was popular at the British box office. According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winners' at the box office in 1945 Britain were The Seventh Veil, with "runners up" being (in release order), Madonna of the Seven Moons, Old Acquaintance, Frenchman's Creek, Mrs Parkington, Arsenic and Old Lace, Meet Me in St Louis, A Song to Remember, Since You Went Away, Here Come the Waves, Tonight and Every Night, Hollywood Canteen, They Were Sisters, The Princess and the Pirate, The Adventures of Susan, National Velvet, Mrs Skefflington, I Live in Grosvenor Square, Nob Hill, Perfect Strangers, Valley of Decision, Conflict and Duffy's Tavern. British "runners up" were They Were Sisters, I Live in Grosvenor Square, Perfect Strangers, Madonna of the Seven Moons, Waterloo Road, Blithe Spirit, The Way to the Stars, I'll Be Your Sweetheart, Dead of Night, Waltz Time and Henry V. Critical Critic Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, "There is much that is admirable about