... story prevent even Reed from investing the characters with life or their adven tures with suspense, in spite of one of the longest man-hunt finales ever filmed. IN the same programme, Prince Philip is a thirty-minute scrap-book of news-reel and still shots ...

... no pretence that it is other than a scrapbook, loosely gathered together by passages from his diary and letters; yet even this side I found fascinating the youngster with his keen perceptions coming in straight from a Cornish farm, his gradual absorption ...