Twenty years ago on a sunny hilltop Our patriotism was a medley of gal- near Salzburg, I came across a clump lant images and slogans: bulldog of people in musical-comedy cos-breed, Battle of Britain, Sink the Bis- tume, together with a camera crew marck, Britain Can Take It. And up to and a director in a big camel-hair some point in the late 1960s, we re- coat. "We are making a romance," he mained fairly proud of our past rec- told me, "about the court of Franz ord and cautiously...