Malta story

The film Malta story is showing tonight on national TV (Channel 4 in the UK:

Upper lips have rarely been stiffer than they are in this no-frills, historically faithful dramatisation of the Second World War siege and bombardment that earned the strategically crucial island of Malta a collective George Cross. A young Alec Guinness gives a muted performance as an RAF reconnaissance photographer who helps to thwart German and Italian invasion plans after being stranded on the island. Jack Hawkins and Flora Robson co-star, but the director Brian Desmond Hurst’s clunky celebration of wartime valour is mostly worth seeing today for its handsome location shots.