Ralph Richardson

　　The movie is a throwback to a time when ordinary people enjoyed simple pleasures like going to their club, or taking in the pictures and growing their chrysanthemums in the adjoining greenhouse garden...so very British.　　It is these very ordinary people that some artists have a great sympathy and admiration for in our often self-serving world. Nothing extraordinary about the movie or the couple but almost 60 years on, the acting still makes it a delight to watch.

　　费弗森将军因儿子哈瑞，幼年只喜好诗词，怕有辱家族声誉，托好友苏顿大夫照应。　　将军死后，哈瑞要求解除军职，因英埃联军将对苏丹用兵，被同伴视为懦夫，寄白羽毛羞辱他，但英军对苏丹用兵并不顺利，哈瑞赴埃及要求医生改容为当地土著，潜入前线，起原军团被回民打败，同伴非殉职即被俘入狱，哈瑞救好友杜伦斯上尉回英国阵地而被捕，旋即逃狱到哈土木营救同伴，英军终来到哈土木，哈瑞策动监狱暴动，控制一边城墙，英军收复哈土木，哈瑞成为大英雄。