The Way to the Stars (1945)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: John Mills, Rosamund John, Michael Redgrave, Douglass Montgomery, Basil Radford, Trevor Howard, Renée Asherson, David Tomlinson, Bonar Colleano, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Jean Simmons
Synopsis:
1945: Halfpenny Field, now a derelict corner of England, was during the war an airfield for both RAF and USAF bomber missions. We see the stories of some of the pilots in flashback, and how their lives were interlinked with that of the local hotel and hostelry.
Review:
In spirit something like a British Best Years of Our Lives, though not as earnest, this film has that unmistakable touch of greatness which partly has to do with the incomparable cast and deft handling but also owes much to the effortlessness with which it captures the mood of an epoch so soon after its passing. The lines of poetry, beautifully balanced and rhymed, show that when conveying the emotions of wartime (in a film without combat sequences) simplicity is the key, and that buttoned-up British approach to things for once seems just right.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: John Mills, Rosamund John, Michael Redgrave, Douglass Montgomery, Basil Radford, Trevor Howard, Renée Asherson, David Tomlinson, Bonar Colleano, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Jean Simmons
Synopsis:
1945: Halfpenny Field, now a derelict corner of England, was during the war an airfield for both RAF and USAF bomber missions. We see the stories of some of the pilots in flashback, and how their lives were interlinked with that of the local hotel and hostelry.
Review:
In spirit something like a British Best Years of Our Lives, though not as earnest, this film has that unmistakable touch of greatness which partly has to do with the incomparable cast and deft handling but also owes much to the effortlessness with which it captures the mood of an epoch so soon after its passing. The lines of poetry, beautifully balanced and rhymed, show that when conveying the emotions of wartime (in a film without combat sequences) simplicity is the key, and that buttoned-up British approach to things for once seems just right.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 109m
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: John Mills, Rosamund John, Michael Redgrave, Douglass Montgomery, Basil Radford, Trevor Howard, Renée Asherson, David Tomlinson, Bonar Colleano, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Jean Simmons
Synopsis:
1945: Halfpenny Field, now a derelict corner of England, was during the war an airfield for both RAF and USAF bomber missions. We see the stories of some of the pilots in flashback, and how their lives were interlinked with that of the local hotel and hostelry.
Review:
In spirit something like a British Best Years of Our Lives, though not as earnest, this film has that unmistakable touch of greatness which partly has to do with the incomparable cast and deft handling but also owes much to the effortlessness with which it captures the mood of an epoch so soon after its passing. The lines of poetry, beautifully balanced and rhymed, show that when conveying the emotions of wartime (in a film without combat sequences) simplicity is the key, and that buttoned-up British approach to things for once seems just right.