‘The Way Ahead’: A Story Familiar to Vets

This film shows the nitty gritty of a soldier’s training in World War II and the adjustments needed to make it in the military.

Conscripts early in their training, in “The Way Ahead.” Two Cities Films

NR | 1h 31m | Drama, War | 1945

“Don’t they give us sheets as well as blankets?” fresh conscript Herbert Davenport (Raymond Huntley) mutters with a condescending tone. The young man is standing in a drafty British Army barracks bay, sizing up a standard-issue bed like it has personally insulted him.