I watched 'Paradise Road' last night.... Ye Gods but it was tedious. It was vastly inferior to the BBC series 'Tenko', which was basically the same premise but executed in a far more moving manner. And it wasn't a patch on 'A Town like Alice'..

As I type this, John Wayne is involved in capturing Pegasus Bridge in 'The Longest Day' - a moving moment as I was standing there on that very bridge in June, just a few days after the D-Day celebrations and had the most wonderful hot chocolate in the Cafe there.

It doesn't matter how terrible or inaccurate or downright wrong a war film is, if it reminds us of the sacrifices made by ordinary men and women of all nations and the debt we will always owe them, then it's a good film.

LTS