Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

brelliott18 A fabulous cast, plot and hilarious script. Richardson is superb as an incompetent placed in a position of power. His acting is just supreme. Elphinck is cast as the intelligent one who is always thwarted by fate or Richardson. Richardson plays a Nazi Major and suggests to Hitler [ from an idea of Elphinck's ] that they flood Britain with forged five pound notes. Elphinck is instructed to produce the forgeries with concentration camp / slave labour. He is parachuted into England but finds that his contact [ Played by Richardson again ] has been turned by British Intelligence. He manages to escape back to France. He is always trying to have romantic encounters in which fate always has the last laugh. His main love is Billie Whitelaw who works in a brothel designed to extract military gossip and traitors by eavesdropping [ Salon Kitty style ].Elphinck tries on many occasions to get his hand on the money but, finally fails but ends up with Whitelaw [ after the war is over ].I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS IS NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD - are the BBC mad ???

bobby-farmer One of the best comedy series of all time. Have been awaiting a DVD/video release for years, or a re-showing on TV.Today is the 60th anniversary of VE day. WWII was one of the most horrible things to ever have happened on our planet; saying that Private Schultz is repulsive is akin to deriding Kelly's Heros, Hogan's Heros or the Germans episode of Fawlty Towers - and misses the point completely.There's a big difference between making sick, cheap jokes about such events, and ultra-high quality comedy drama like these pieces.I cannot wait to revel in it's pleasures once more. Surely 2005 will see a DVD release.

spud_head >Yes folks,this is a sitcom about the inmates of a concentration camp.It is possibly the most repulsive show ever made.What on earth is this man talking about? It's like Escape to Victory for forgers - only it's intentionally funny!The late Michael Elphick puts in a suitably sheepish role as the luckless Schultz, while Peter Richardson comes out as the real star - most of the time a ruthless, goose-stepping, selfish b*stard! Just when you think everything is going right for Schultz, the Nazis turn up, he gets bonked on the head, nearly drowned in a fjord or blown to smithereens! Classic!Great watching, and I hope it comes out on DVD! My VHS recording is starting to look a bit tatty!

JerryP-2 This one is priceless. While it is done definitely tongue-in-cheek, this is based on actual events during the Second World War. The Nazis were successful in creating counterfeit British currency, and with it they intended to destroy the British economic monetary systems. Unfortunately, they counted too heavily on Private Schultz.Ian Richardson does a wonderfully evil SS officer -- and the rest of the cast isn't bad either. You have to see this one for yourself.