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Period Drama. Baronet's son marries lady's-maid. Later ostracised by the Victorians, lady's-maid leaves him so that he and the "Regiment" should not be parted. Unbeknown to him she bears him a son while he is endeavouring to forget in India. In the meanwhile son waxes fat and lady's-maid becomes singer and dancer to enable said son to go to husband's old school. Suddenly, at an entertainment for troops in the 1914-18 war, they meet again and life is resumed happily and devotedly till the grandson in his turn marries a factory worker in 1944.

Here are all the ingredients for a popular money-making film. It may be a pot-boiler, but it is a pleasant and for many a nostalgic one where the audience can laugh, cry, suffer and hum the well-known songs of three wars. It is far from being a brilliant film and mistakes are numerous. Though British, the dignity of Curzon Street is Hollywoodised, and it is rare, in 1945, that people in the sixties look as if they have one foot in the grave. Michael Vilding is at his best, and Anna Neagle with her usual charm knows all the tricks of the trade. Definitely a “Cavalcade" of incident and sentiment.

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