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Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) DVD Review: Hammer Films’ Contribution to the War Genre
Based on the 1958 BBC teleplay of the same name, the 1959 World War II drama Yesterday’s Enemy brings us an account of the Big One from a different perspective. Yes, we’ve all witnessed various tales of American soldiers in the Asian jungles, as we have seen patriotic yarns depicting the struggles in Europe on the behalf of our British brothers. With Yesterday’s Enemy, however, we get to see something altogether different: the plight of a British regiment in the Burmese jungles fighting against the Japanese. Sure, it’s very similar to most other WWII flicks, but when you take into consideration the studio behind this one was none other than Hammer Films, well that just takes things up a notch or two right there.
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