![]() There’s hard drinking, tight-lipped insubordination, outbursts of reckless heroism and inspirational speeches dripping with English public school sarcasm. ![]() Knight does his best, with a filmic style evoking the best Desert Rats war movie, Ice Cold In Alex. It also included clips of World War II parachute training, involving jumping off lorries at 30mph.Īt the time I pointed out that the story cried out for movie treatment, ideally with a young David Niven as Stirling and John Mills as his second-in-command, the highly strung Jock Lewes. Macintyre’s book was the basis for a documentary series five years ago, which featured archive interviews filmed with veteran survivors in 1987. CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: If anything, this six-part wartime drama, set in North Africa, tones down some of the most outrageous excesses of this self-styled ‘band of vagabonds’ ![]()
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