Edward Rigby as Bill Purvis, the poacher. Muriel George as Mrs Collins, the postmistress. Thora Hird as Ivy Dawking (a Land Army Girl). Elizabeth Allan as Peggy Pryde (a Land Army Girl). Basil Sydney as Kommandant Ortler, alias Major Hammond. Valerie Taylor as Nora Ashton, the vicar's daughter. Leslie Banks as Oliver Wilsford, the treacherous squire. The villager retelling the story to the camera shows the Germans' grave in the churchyard and explains proudly: "Yes, that's the only bit of England they got." The British troops then arrive at Bramley End. During the battle, many of the villagers who left to fight are wounded or killed Mrs Fraser saves the children from a grenade, at the cost of her own life, and Tom's father is shot in the arm and wrenches his ankle as he falls. The squire is shot dead by the vicar's daughter, who discovers his treachery as he attempts to let the Germans into the barricaded house. British soldiers arrive, and – aided by some of the villagers, including a group of Women's Land Army girls, who have managed to escape, barricade themselves in, and arm themselves – defeat the Germans after a short battle. He is shot in the leg by a German, but manages to alert the British Army. A young boy, George, escapes from the church. Members of the local Home Guard are ambushed and shot by the Germans. The captive civilians attempt to contact and warn the local Home Guard, but are betrayed by the village squire, who is revealed to be a long-time collaborator with the Germans. The girl at the exchange then picks up the phone, but gets no response. Mrs Collins waits, and is killed by another German who walks into the shop. Mrs Collins, the postmistress, manages to kill a German with an axe used for chopping firewood, and tries to telephone for help, but the girls on the telephone exchange see her light and decide that she can wait. Mrs Fraser then puts a note in Cousin Maude's pocket, but she uses it to hold her car window in place her dog, Edward, then chews it to shreds after it blows onto the back seat. Such plans include writing a message on an egg and giving them to the local paper boy for his mother, but they are crushed when Mrs Fraser's cousin runs over them. In attempts to reach the outside world, many of the villagers take action. The vicar is shot while sounding the church bell in alarm. 
After they are revealed to be German soldiers intended to form the vanguard of an invasion of Britain, they round up the residents and hold them captive in the local church. At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts set in about their true purpose and identity. It is the Whitsun weekend so life is even quieter than usual and there is almost no traffic of any kind. The story is told in flashback by a villager ( Mervyn Johns): During the Second World War, a group of seemingly authentic British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of Bramley End.
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