Heart-warming WW2 drama starring John Thaw. A curmudgeonly widower living in a small village takes in a shy evacuee from London, and teaches him to read, write and draw.

"John was as he has been throughout ... which made Inspector Morse, Goodnight Mister Tom and Kavanagh QC, said Thaw was "one of the great actors of his generation". "He was universally the viewers ...

We're in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. "Mr. Tom" Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during WWI, and grief has made him a surly ...