The Captive Heart
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| The Captive Heart | |
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 VHS cover for The Captive Heart |
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| Directed by | Basil Dearden |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | Michael Redgrave Rachel Kempson |
| Distributed by | Associated British Film Distributors Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | April 29, 1946 (UK release) |
| Running time | 104 min |
| Language | English |
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The Captive Heart is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden for Ealing Studios.
[edit] Plot
Set in a POW camp after the Battle of Dunkirk, the film follows the lives of nine separate men. The main story involves one of the British officers, Capt. Geoffrey Mitchell. He is in fact Capt. Karel Hasek, a Czech soldier who has escaped from a concentration camp and assumed the identity of the dead officer.
To avoid being detected, he corresponds with Mitchell's wife Celia, sending love letters. Celia falls in love as a result of the letters; she and her husband had a cool relationship before the war. After Hasek's POW camp is liberated, he "returns" to England, where he meets with Celia. She realises that she loves Hasek and they decide to stay together.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Redgrave — Capt. Karel Hasek, alias Geoffrey Mitchell
- Rachel Kempson — Celia Mitchell
- Frederick Leister — Mr. Mowbray
- Mervyn Johns — Pvt. Don Evans
- Rachel Thomas — Di Evans
- Jack Warner — Cpl. Ted Horsfall
- Gladys Henson — Flo Horsfall
- James Harcourt — Doctor
- Gordon Jackson — Lt. David Lennox
- Elliott Mason — Mrs. Lennox
- Margot Fitzsimons — Elspeth McDougall
- David Keir — Mr. McDougall
- Derek Bond — Lt. Stephen Harley
- Jane Barrett — Caroline Harley
- Meriel Forbes — Beryl Curtiss
