- Actors: Henry Koster|Robert Taylor|Richard Todd|Dana Wynter
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Fox
- VHS Release Date: 17 Aug 1998
- Run Time: 106 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004COQY
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 33,737 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Format:DVD
This 1956 effort is pure production line stuff given a CinemaScope and Stereophonic gloss, with the emphasis on romantic, rather than military, manoeuvres. Robert Taylor (understandably) loves Dana Wynter, who also (not so understandably) loves Richard Todd; Edmond O'Brien loves glory; and John Williams just hangs around the sidelines of both plot and frame as the quintessential old-world fogey. After much talk, guilt and plot contrivances, O'Brien loses his nerve, Taylor loses the girl and Todd loses even more. Waterloo Bridge it ain't.
Very much an American take on the invasion (although in fact it deals primarily with a diversionary raid), Taylor's arrogance and the screenplay's clumsy culture clashes do give off an unfortunate aura of seeing the British as a bunch of ingrates who couldn't tie their shoelaces without help from the Yanks that is less than endearing. Sample dialogue: "I don't go for them Limeys. They talk fast, but fight slow." The Home Guard too are singled out for contempt. The very few other British to make it into the film are of the "Cor, luvaduck guv'nor" variety, although, to be fair, even fewer Germans are on view - while not exactly a cheapie, the budget obviously didn't extend to more than five German uniforms.
Despite director Henry Koster's limited visual imagination - if there are three people in any given shot, you can bet he'll line them up left, right and centre without fail - and a total absence of close-ups so prevalent in early widescreen pictures, the old-fashioned CinemaScope is a virtue and one of the chief reasons for buying this: with little in the way of battle scenes and much mushy stuff, this is more one for undemanding romantics and readers of Mills and Boon than the Boys Own brigade.
Fox's UK PAL DVD has a decent but somewhat soft 2.35:1 widescreen transfer (the softness in part due to the limitations of the early CinemaScope lenses, though remastering could have helped) with the original theatrical trailer the only extra.
Very much an American take on the invasion (although in fact it deals primarily with a diversionary raid), Taylor's arrogance and the screenplay's clumsy culture clashes do give off an unfortunate aura of seeing the British as a bunch of ingrates who couldn't tie their shoelaces without help from the Yanks that is less than endearing. Sample dialogue: "I don't go for them Limeys. They talk fast, but fight slow." The Home Guard too are singled out for contempt. The very few other British to make it into the film are of the "Cor, luvaduck guv'nor" variety, although, to be fair, even fewer Germans are on view - while not exactly a cheapie, the budget obviously didn't extend to more than five German uniforms.
Despite director Henry Koster's limited visual imagination - if there are three people in any given shot, you can bet he'll line them up left, right and centre without fail - and a total absence of close-ups so prevalent in early widescreen pictures, the old-fashioned CinemaScope is a virtue and one of the chief reasons for buying this: with little in the way of battle scenes and much mushy stuff, this is more one for undemanding romantics and readers of Mills and Boon than the Boys Own brigade.
Fox's UK PAL DVD has a decent but somewhat soft 2.35:1 widescreen transfer (the softness in part due to the limitations of the early CinemaScope lenses, though remastering could have helped) with the original theatrical trailer the only extra.
Format:DVD
An excellent romantic war story with some very good acting;also has the courage to show some of the tensions existing between British and American service personnel.
Well worth watching.
Well worth watching.
Format:DVD
THIS MOVIE REMINDS ME OF MY EARLY DAYS OF GOING TO THE CINEMA, WHEN THERE WERE HARDLY ANY SPECIAL EFFECTS,AND ACTING WAS TO THE FORE!!, TAYLOR & TODD, GAVE FIRST CLASS PERFORMANCES,IN A TRULY WELL FILMED LOVE AND WAR STORY....TRUE TO SAY "THEY JUST DON'T MAKE THEM LIKETHIS ANYMORE"
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