One of the great British post-war films: a poignant, moving and extremely penetrating portrait of the pressure, both physical and mental, put upon a man who refuses to strike, by members of his union. Richard Attenborough is hauntingly true as the 'blackleg', Pier Angeli delicate and moving as his wife - her best screen work since Somebody Up There Likes Me. It can't have pleased the unions or the militants, but nonetheless much of it remains engraved in the mind - especially Brian Bedford's repellent bully and Alfred Burke's magnificently dog-eared and hateful Communist organiser. Easily director Guy Green's most memorable film.

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