Ourselves Alone (Gaumont-British), whose title is a free translation of the Gaelic Sinn Fein, differs from Hollywood investigations of that Irish revolutionary group by approaching it from a temperate and somewhat more realistic British viewpoint. Not entirely neglecting the poetry of The Informer and The Plough And The Stars or the star-crossed romance of Beloved Enemy, Ourselves Alone is concerned chiefly with the hard lot of the
Black-&-Tans, those hard-bitten ex-Army men who were sent to Ireland in 1920 to shoot it out with the Nationalist guerrillas. Irish County Inspector Hannay (John...