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Yanks (1979)
Director: John Schlesinger
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From Time Out Film Guide
From the arrival of a platoon of GIs in Northern England to their departure for D-Day, this chronicles three wartime romances, supposedly illuminating the fears and tensions that riddled the Anglo-American alliance. Good cast, scrupulous period reconstruction, and sentimentality; but it doesn't do much to redeem Schlesinger from the 'less-than-meets-the-eye' category.Author:
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- phil danielson said...
- Posted on Aug 28 2009 08:24 The largest US base was at Burtonwood, near warrington, in what is now Cheshire (Then South Lancashire) mUch of this movie was shot around there, a lot was filmed in the village of Dobcross which is just over the border in Yorkshire, generally if you see stone houses the scenes were fimed in Yorkshire, and red brick houses, filmed in Lancashire/cheshire -do my frind it is all pretty accurate setting weise
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- Sam said...
- Posted on Feb 22 2008 06:52 Less than meets the eye? Schlesinger?? The same Schlesinger who directed Midnight Cowboy? The Day of the Locust? Marathon Man? What does it take to "meet your eye"?...Perhaps it's the scripts that aren't what they used to be?? Compared to what I'm watching today, Yanks holds up as a good little romance, Gere is at his youthful best and other than say WITNESS, I'd say that this is about as good as a romance got in the 80s (1979). This is the second time I've seen it; it was a good although not great movie then and it's still a good movie today.
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- charlie gilsenan said...
- Posted on Aug 12 2007 12:58 What on earth are these GI's doing in North England (Oldham) ? Being on invasion alert, surely they would have been in Kent, Dorset or Hampshire etc. Can anyone correct me or am I justified in my shock at such inaccuracy? (John Schlesinger should know better!) comment you type in this box will appear on the site
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Cast & crew
Director: John Schlesinger
Producer: Joseph Janni, Lester Persky
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Gere, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn, Chick Vennera, Rachel Roberts, Tony Melody, Wendy Morgan full cast
Duration: 141 mins
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