# Medal for the General

“Touching story of the home front” “Solid comedy-drama” (IMDB reviews quotes). Godfrey Tearle has the title role of an old warrior embittered by being refused a military post at the outbreak of WW2, who then is forced to take in five evacuee children from the London slums. Good supporting cast and adequate production values. Recommended. IMDB rating 7.0. Directed by Maurice Elvey. UK release 1944. US release 1946. Complete print ? A.K.A. “The Gay Intruders". CAST NOTE: The film debut of Petula Clark (age 9)

- Kind: Feature
- By: Louis H Jackson (uncredited)
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MedalForTheGeneral)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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