Well, I'm glad to see we have a collection of the usual anti-
British, anti-
Scott invective collected here as a representative example of the late 20th century
obsession with "
debunking" all the old heroes. If any original thought or genuine research had been done instead, one might notice that almost everything said has come straight out of the work of
Roland Huntford.
Conversely, the film, made in 1948, could not help being a source of adulation for one of the symbols of almost everything which underpinned British society in that era. As a result, the story it tells is also one of limited truth.