Hanover Street (film)

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Hanover Street

Poster 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 Flag of the United States United States
Language English
IMDb profile

Hanover Street is a 1979 film written and directed by Peter Hyams, starring Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down.

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[edit] Plot

Set in London during World War II, Capt. David Halloran (Harrison Ford) an American bomber pilot serving with the Eighth Air Force in the UK, meets Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down) a nurse. After a chance encounter before an air raid, although she is married, Sellinger and Halloran fall in love. Halloran is subsequently sent on an undercover mission in Nazi-occupied France to deliver a British agent, Paul Sellinger (Christopher Plummer).

After being shot down behind enemy lines, Halloran realizes his cargo is his lover's husband. Both men must work together in order to survive.

[edit] Cast

As appearing in screen credits (main roles identified)[1]:

Actor Role
Harrison Ford Capt. David Halloran
Lesley-Anne Down Margaret Sellinger
Christopher Plummer Paul Sellinger
Alec McCowen Major Trumbo Marty Lynch
Michael Sacks 2nd Lt. Martin Hyer
Patsy Kensit Sarah Sellinger
Max Wall Harry Pike
Shane Rimmer Col. Ronald Bart

[edit] Production

The aerial sequences were mostly filmed at the by then-disused Bovingdon airfield using five North American B-25s Mitchell bombers flown over to England from USA 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.

[edit] Aircraft

Movie serial # Nickname Aircraft type Actual serial # Registration # Disposition
151632 Gorgeous George Ann / Thar She Blows B-25J-30NC 44-30925 N9494Z Brussels Air Museum
151645 Marvellous Miriam B-25J-20NC 44-29366 N9115Z RAF Museum Hendon
151790 Amazing Andrea B-25J-30NC 44-86701 N7681C Destroyed – Hanger Fire
151863 Big Bad Bonnie B-25J-30NC 44-86843 N9455Z Grissom Air Museum
151724 Brenda’s Boys B-25J-20NC 44-29121 N86427 Musei del Aiere, Madrid, Spain

[edit] Reception

The film was a critical and commercial failure on its release, but aviation buffs enjoy the flying sequences.

[edit] Awards

Patsy Kensit was nominated for, but did not win, the Best Juvenile Actress in a Motion Picture award for 1980 from Young Artists Awards [[1]]


[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Hanover Street (1979) - full credits." IMdB. Retrieved: 7 June 2008.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Dolan Edward F. Jr. Hollywood Goes to War. London: Bison Books, 1985. ISBN 0-86124-229-7.
  • Harwick, Jack and Schnepf, Ed. "A Buff's Guide to Aviation Movies". Air Progress Aviation, Volume 7, No. 1, Spring 1983.
  • Oriss, Bruce. When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War II. Hawthorne, California: Aero Associates Inc., 1984. ISBN 0-9613088-0-X.

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