It's a fun wartime drama with a built-in romance, thrills and spills, and a nice ending. The cast is good too, Sylvia Syms and British WW2 film staple John Mills ("I was Monty's Double" etc), and it stands up quite well today.
I doubt whether this is a true story as claimed in the voiceover introduction. First of all, the plot relies on quite a lot of coincidences happening to set up the situation the characters find themselves in.
Also, it seems unlikely that Germans would take time to escort a British ambulance. I can imagine they might leave the ambulance to go its own way, but they would hardly escort it.
I also doubt a German spy would be hitchhiking with a full radio set in a backpack, hidden using nothing more than some bottles of gin, then radioing base in such an obvious way, then falling into a swamp like a complete wally. Not a great spy!
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