The First Of The Few

Old films. I like old films. Tiring of the tide of euodrivel on the news this morning (whatever have we done to deserve a chippy little twerp like Tim Farron?) I decided to take in a film. The First of the Few is the patriotic (made in the midst of WW2) telling of the genesis of the Spitfire. The effects are understandably creaky but the whole is charming, disarming and moving. 7/10. Oh and by the way Leslie Howard (who directed and starred) was thought to look a little like my beloved airman Grandfather. The film's concluding on-screen epitaph is quite properly left to Churchill.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few