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A Foreign Field. Copyright: BBC
A Foreign Field

A Foreign Field

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC One
  • 1993
  • 1 episode

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. Stars Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann, John Randolph, Geraldine Chaplin and more.

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Press clippings

A Foreign Field is something seen in a rear-view mirror, so why does it feel as if it lasted two hours when it only ran for 90 minutes? It seemed a slight vessel over-burdened with the freight of famous faces.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 13th September 1993

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