The New Lot (1943) British Army training film directed by Carol Reed

This is a training film made for the British Directorate of Army Psychiatry directed by Carol Reed and written by Peter Ustinov and Eric Ambler. The film features five different recruits and turns them into an efficient well motivated team.
For fifty years this film was thought to be lost but this print turned up in India.
The underlying plot of this training film formed the story line for the feature film The Way Ahead 1944
The recruits arrive at Doomsdale but it is really Baynards on the Guildford-Christs Hospital line

[@allandavis8201]

The film “the way ahead” springs to mind with the five chaps and their characters, that was an excellent film.

[@FraserJBWalker]

Dj Phantom This was the inspiration for The Way Ahead

[@howardbowen-RC-Pilot]

@@FraserJBWalker just what I was going to say. Used a lot of the script too.

[@WanderlustZero]

@@howardbowen-RC-Pilot and at least 3 of the same actors

[@phoebebrown2883]

@@FraserJBWalker I love that film.

[@Cromwelldunbar]

I agree with you all! I too hold “The Way Ahead” to be a great film…and sincerely thank those of you who have mentioned the connection of this film which am about to enjoy (at the mo’ have just viewed the early scene of the young Czech tell his heart binding story winning the moving empathy from each of the others however different they are from their social backgrounds and attitudes, the wonderful moving thing is that they each individually and collectively have their heart in the right place). In passing, I must say how wonderful it is for me to read each of your comments and all in agreement, it’s almost as though you had all emerged from the film itself as the actors…Sounds silly, maybe, yet I think it’s deeper than that…something like saying or feeling it’s the spirit and soul of basic agreement and respect for others. Another film I believe we’d all share agreement on is This Happy Breed with Robert Newton’s superb rôle as father of the family - my, didn’t he have some real « home truths » to rightly deal out after so much thoughtful reflection to his wife played by magnificent Glenda Jackson and his old soldier mate played by…his name escapes me for the mo’…sorry - but « Steady the Buffs! » is his favourite drinking toast! Please allow me the pleasure to wish you all well, and thanks for reading my sentimental nonsense…the trouble when one gets old! « Steady the Buffs! »

[@FrederickHopkins-xb6me]

"We're all doomed" John Laurie. Bernard Miles, Peter Ustinov, Raymond Huntley, John Slater. All well known actors in post war films.

[@Bill23799]

Wow......( Sir ) Peter Ustinov was a wee lad in this film. He also wrote the screenplay and he played the owner of the Rispoli Cafe in the feature film " The Way Ahead " which was based on this training film.

[@markandresen1]

What an amazing cast. Even the future thriller novel supremo Eric Ambler gets a try-out.

[@danielf1313]

Private Frazer moonlighting as an air raid warden-let’s hope Captain Mainwaring won’t find out...

[@ange9663]

Excellent, loved seeing Robert Donat hamming it up as the war hero. Fab thank you xx

[@HUMPTYNUGGET]

What a great generation they were........saved the world from a fate worse than death ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@Hartley_Hare]

@andrewbarry6702 Better, by far, than the Nazis being in charge.

[@Kidraver555]

Anything Reed directs is great.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

For copyright/public domain purposes, according to British law, a crown copyright of a published work is only for 50 years. This passed into the public domain in 1993.

[@OldSetonian]

Peter Ustinov, Raymond Huntley and John Laurie all went on to appear in 'The Way Ahead'.

[@lordeden2732]

Now tell us something we don't know!

[@yan24to]

I really enjoyed that watched it last week.

[@sf100800]

The way ahead cast great movie great actors

[@levenscott645]

The Eric Ambler touch raises this film above its subject matter.

[@pocketjohnson5175]

Just reading Peter Ustinov's biography was largely his idea in the first place - they were supposed to make a film for training commandos but it got canned after the Dieppe raid. So to avoid being sent back to their respective units they came up with this idea managed to sell it to the powers that be!

[@glbaker5595]

Thanks for uploading this, I think this makes like three versions of this film that I've seen already, I love it

[@drinkwater319]

Look at all those famous actors turning out for Carol Reed .....and Queen and country

[@FraserJBWalker]

King

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

The monarch during World War II was King George VI. Her Most Ancient Majesty was driving lorries (trucks) during the war. She didn't become queen until 1952.

[@billhuber2964]

There was another film , the way ahead. Some of the actors here were in that one too.

[@danscott3880]

Awesome movie. The way ahead aka Immortal Battalion.

[@sirsidfosse1313]

The med officer was Ian Fleming.

[@billhuber2964]

love those brits!! there just like us when we got our draft notices.

[@backblaise1255]

This is one of the best films of its kind. I have seen it before but I still laughed loudly several times, especially when the New Lot were taking the piss out of the the war film at 36:15 A training film that says that film heroes are bollocks! And that says that after the war things have got to change, to be different to 1918. Humour, encouragement, information and mild socialism. You could not make a film like it now.

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

I recognize two (Peter Ustinov is one) from the film "One of Our Aircraft is Missing". Yes, some Yanks appreciate good movies

[@naguerea]

Private Frazer, in his day, was a matinee idol so my mother-in-law told me.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

He was in The 39 Steps with Robert Donat.

[@cacampbell3654]

Wow. India! So great for us now and future generations.

[@lordeden2732]

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[@julieatkin3188]

I know what your talking about , very lucky this classic wasn't lost 😅

[@bardotbardo3633]

Bless Them All 🌹

[@johnwaller2886]

Another lovely film--(Especially after the sordid advert for throwaway kinky slippers!!).

[@johndaarteest]

21:57 does he say bullshit? I would have thought that a rude word in a film of that time.

[@twittykins]

It certainly sounds like it. As this was an army training film, it could get away with more 'colourful' language than would be permitted for a cinema release.

[@philipinchina]

Excellent.

[@bobyouel7674]

great stuff

[@lordeden2732]

This is very much like the other film "The Way Ahead!" ¤

[@Pitcairn2]

Private 'Weeeere Doooomed' Frazer lol

[@Bill23799]

Wow I missed that.

[@seanmccann8368]

Och aye, it's a long way from the wee Isle o' Barra and the lighthouse wi' the riggin'.

[@Ubique2927]

We’re all doomed… doomed I tell you!

[@johncaldwell-wq1hp]

I can sympathise with "Peter-Ustinov"-I was a "mama's-boy"-too !!-had my ass wiped till I was 25 !!--aaaaah-the memories !!

[@brianhaskard1042]

Sir Bernard Miles & Kathleen Harrison

[@jamesross1799]

It must have been very daunting but a whole generation of young men both my grandads included were swept up with this.

[@Stannington]

The case from The Way Ahead

[@Bill23799]

Robert Donat played the WW I officer who wiped out that German Pill Box in the movie that was in the movie by his sheer use of over acting...haha.

[@revanslacey]

27:10 Am I getting mixed up here or should they be taking off the magazine BEFORE pulling the cocking handle to clear the blockage and firing off the mechanism?

[@Gunnerbarnes]

In fact, the immidiate action drill was taught like that. First cock the gun, then remove the magazine. I checked in my old cadet aide memoire from 1981. Here's a good film on the Bren, which shows the immediate action and gas stoppage drills (from around the 17.26 mark): kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmTWeZRuasqqnbM

[@Ubique2927]

You need to see what is causing the stoppage. Cocking my clear it.

[@rockape560]

WOW a young PETER USTINOV

[@A60stock]

He was just 18 at the time

[@CaesarInVa]

I THOUGHT that's who that was! Also, the Scotsman is John Laurie, a World War ONE (!) veteran, who played Private Frazer in the BBS TV show "Dad's Army" which aired way back in the late 60s and early 70s.

[@COIcultist]

@@CaesarInVa BBS? BBC!

[@mickgilbert5257]

The soldier getting in to the lorry with the new recruits had a M1 garrand I thought

[@chrisspalding9608]

P14 rifle

[@bromisovalum8417]

21:57 first time I heard the word bullshit in an old black and white movie. I guess during wartime these things were allowed.

[@hopatease1]

it was made the same year I was born probably no one left alive that was in it : ( hell almost all the WW 2 vets are gone now just like the WW 1 ones us viet nam vets are all getting old our self's

[@davidcarmichael8394]

Lest we forget.

[@rapman5363]

“Ain’t been away from the Mrs and the nippers”

[@VonTurtle8282]

Private Frazer

[@chrissheppard5068]

Yes to defeat the Germans impress with a bit of arms drill.

[@naguerea]

If you have served, you would know how necessary all that is, (oer, what shall I do now is no good, you need training)

[@chrissheppard5068]

@@naguerea Yeh 24 years Royal Marines....and we spent very little time tik toking.....

[@deannahext]

Don’t fret you blue bloods! The boys from Liverpool will cheer up the whole world by 1963.

[@francislea4700]

Heroes fit for homes more like. (hospital type homes).

[@rapman5363]

Pip Pip Cheerio Bob’s your Uncle

[@mjspice100]

I loved the WO1 marching down the platform, they gave him a Hitler moustache.. 😂