Hanover Street

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There is also a street of the same name in Dominica's capital, Roseau.

Hanover Street
DVD cover for the film
Directed by	Peter Hyams
Produced by	Paul Lazarus III
Written by	Peter Hyams
Starring	Harrison Ford Christopher Plummer Lesley-Anne Down Patsy Kensit
Music by	John Barry
Cinematography	David Watkin
Editing by	James Mitchell
Release date(s)	26 September 1979
Running time	109 mins
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Hanover Street is a 1979 movie written and directed by Peter Hyams, starring Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down. Set in London during World War II, Ford plays an American bomber pilot serving with the Eighth Air Force in the UK. Down plays a nurse, married to an intelligence officer played by Christopher Plummer.

Hanover Street appeared old-fashioned on its original release and has been largely forgotten, though since its re-release on DVD in 2001, it has been noticed again, and compared to the much later film The English Patient.

Aviation buffs will also enjoy the flying sequences, which were mostly filmed at the by then-disused Bovingdon airfield using a number of North American B-25's, some of which were flown over to England specially for the filming.

In the film, Down emerges hurriedly from a Piccadilly line tube station called "Hanover Street". In reality there was no such station and, since Hanover Street links upper Regent Street and Brook Street, this would not, in any case, match the alignment of the Piccadilly line – unless there were a fictitious spur similar to that which ran from Holborn to Aldwych from 1907 to 1994.