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Bookmark this pageHanover Street (1979)
Director: Peter Hyams
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From Time Out Film Guide
Gung-ho American World War II bomber pilot falls for an already married English rose during teatime rendezvous in war-torn Hanover Street. Presumably the fragile 'brief encounters' of war had some immediate poignancy for the audiences of that period; here, though, tricked out with all sorts of 'modern' intrusions (bed scenes, Catch-22 aircrew) and saddled with dialogue of quite staggering banality, they merely straggle into the wayward irrelevancies of his creeping cowardice and her increasing guilt. The second half ignores the obvious irony of husband and lover circumstantially trapped on the same suicide mission, settling instead for heroics of the 'Tell her I died a brave man' variety. Anaemic and foolish. CPea.Author: CPea
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- Posted on Jul 19 2011 22:07 Outstanding recreation of London street scene during the blitz, plus Han Solo and John Barry score, how can this not be a classic?
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Cast & crew
Director: Peter Hyams
Producer: Paul N Lazarus III
Cast: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur, Michael Sacks, Patsy Kensit, Max Wall full cast
Duration: 108 mins
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