The first film to be directed and written by the indefatigable team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, Millions Like Us presents a highly entertaining but no-nonsense study of the intermingling of classes in Britain during World War II, as members of a middle class family broken apart by the war do their bit in both the armed services and in an aircraft factory. John Gillett of the British Film Institute writes: "Documentary-type shooting effectively encloses the fictional story, and sharp playing from Patricia Roc and Gordon Jackson (plus a nicely tart relationship between Anne Crawford and Eric Portman) builds up a gritty, touching, sometimes ironic portrait of British life at a crucial moment. This may not have been precisely 'the way we were' but it touches the right nerve."