You can watch hanover street online on videoondemand services netflix, hbo now, paytv or movie theatres with original audio in english. Action director peter hyams is out of his element with this melodramatic world war ii drama, which consists mostly of an unlikely tryst between american soldier and british nurse. Harrison ford, christopher plummer, lesleyanne down, william hootkins. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of hanover street. Hanover street 1979 bloopers, mistakes, errors in continuity, plot holes, anachronisms, spoilers and more. Read the hanover street movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. It stars harrison ford, lesley anne down, and christopher plummer. Jay austin, a san francisco police detective, is sent to investigate. Rock hudson plays an american serving in the italian army during the war to end all wars more. Harrison ford lesleyanne down original music by john barry. As often happens in this genre, david is assigned to fly a dangerous mission over occupied france to drop paul behind german lines. The two instantly fall in love, despite the fact that the young nurse is.
Released 1979, hanover street stars harrison ford, lesleyanne down, christopher plummer, alec mccowen the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 49 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Submit data corrections for hanover street peter hyams on allmovie. Hanover street is reasonably effective as a war film with a love story background. Hanover street is a 1979 angloamerican wartime romantic film, written and directed by peter hyams and starring harrison ford, lesleyanne down and christopher plummer. Its about these two men who are in love with the same woman and who have to work together to get out of nazi occupied france. Synopsis the faces are new and the settings uptodate, but otherwise an annapolis story is the triedandtrue two guys and one girl formula. Hanover street 1979 is a world war ii action, adventure movie starring harrison ford and lesleyanne down. Synopsis by hal erickson in this wwii romance, harrison ford facetoface with superstardom from his involvement in star wars is cast as david halloran, an american bomber pilot stationed in london. Hanover street is a 1979 angloamerican war film written and directed by peter hyams, starring harrison ford. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. I saw this movie when i was 10 years old and was impressed by its pacing, the plot twist, and the fact that in the end it is just as it is billed, a romantic war movie.
In london during the second world war, lieutenant david halloran, an american b25 bomber pilot with the eighth air force based in england, and margaret sellinger an english nurse, meet on hanover street in a chance encounter. He clashes with lieutenant colonel alan caldwell, the base provost marshal years earlier, austin and lynch were partners while serving as mps and. It is loosely based on the 1979 movie hanover street. Released by varese sarabande club in 2009 vcl03091090 containing music from hanover street 1979. After harrison ford completed star wars, he made the dubious decision to sandwich in a war romance before playing indiana jones. There are innumerable problems with hanover street. Wartorn europe is the setting for this romantic actionadventure about the fateful entanglements of two men in love with the same woman. Apr 06, 2009 hanover street soundtrack from 1979, composed by john barry. These have ranged from historical recreations of the victorian london of charles dickens and sherlock holmes, to the romantic comedies of bridget joness diary and notting hill, by way of crime films, spy thrillers, science fiction and the swinging london films of the 1960s. Hanover street film wikimili, the best wikipedia reader.
I really liked the film as i am a huge fan of all three of these actors. First, the plot plays out like a bad soap opera thats missing a climax. Hanover street film culture wikia fandom powered by wikia. Hanover street a good movie nerfherders playground. What peter hyams has achieved with hanover street, his new film about a wartime romance set in the london of 1943, is a movie that is almost as. Hanover street is a 1979 angloamerican wartime romantic film, written and directed by peter hyams, and starring harrison ford, lesleyanne down and christopher plummer. This is a solid visual treatment, but the image sometimes looks washed out, though this could be intentional to an extent.
Though the movies plot keeps david and paul from meeting for quite a while, hanover street finds a way to have their paths cross. Hanover street 1979 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Read the hanover street plot and find out who is in the cast and crew at. I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line.
During an air raid, halloran meets and falls in love with beautiful briton margaret sellinger lesleyanne down. But im a fan of harrison ford as he was quite a hero in this late 1970s film. Find out about all the goofs from hanover street 1979 on imdb. The film received immense critical acclaim upon its release. This movie was made in 1979, soon after fords exploits as han solo in star wars 1977, whereupon i became a big fan of both. Christopher plummer, lesleyanne down, harrison ford. Our time also known as death of her innocence is a 1974 american drama film directed by peter hyams. The movie opens in london in 1943 on hanover street. The nearest train station to hanover street today is the oxford circus tube. The movie begins in london, with the american pilot alpha and the british nurse conning each other, trying to fake each other out for a place on a bus. Rent hanover street 1979 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix.
In real life there was no such hanover street station, at least at the time the movie was set. The situation that theyre put in is somewhat creative but the execution of the idea was pretty lousy. In london during the second world war, lieutenant david halloran harrison ford, an american b25 bomber pilot with the eighth air force based in england, and margaret sellinger lesleyanne down an english nurse, meet on hanover street in a chance encounter during the blitz. In this wwii romance, harrison ford facetoface with superstardom from his involvement in star wars is cast as david halloran, an american bomber pilot. Hangover square is a 1945 film noir directed by john brahm, based on the novel hangover square 1941 by patrick hamilton. This game is interrupted by v2 rocket bombing, and a real, and intense, emotional bonding. Though not a hit, it was liked as a study of a boygirl relationship. I saw some grain present here and there, though never too thick, save for a couple brief instances. Unfortunately, hanover street breaks no new ground. I saw this movie when i was 10 years old and was impressed by its pacing. In london during the second world war, lieutenant david halloran harrison ford, an american b25 bomber pilot with the eighth air force based in england, and margaret sellinger lesleyanne down an english nurse, meet on hanover street in a chance encounter during the blitz the following day, hallorans squadron is sent to bomb rouen.
Filmed on location at the titular maryland naval academy, the story centers upon two sibling cadets, tony john derek and jim kevin mccarthy. Hanover street 1979 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. Hanover street 1979 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. David halloran harrison ford, a courageous american. In london during the second world war, lieutenant david halloran, an american b25 bomber pilot with the eighth air force based. What peter hyams has achieved with hanover street, his new film about a wartime romance set in the london of 1943, is a movie that is almost as funny as woody allens whats up, tiger lily. Set in london during the second world war, lieutenant david halloran harrison ford an american bomber pilot serving with the eighth air force in the uk and margaret sellinger lesleyanne down a british nurse meet in hanover street in a chance encounter during an air raid.
Rent hanover street 1979 starring harrison ford and lesleyanne down on dvd and bluray. In place of robert taylor and tyrone power we get an earnest but dull harrison ford this was shot in between the first two star wars films. In this wwii romance, harrison ford facetoface with superstardom from his involvement in star wars is cast as david halloran, an american bomber pilot stationed in london. The rest of the film is painted in the broadest strokes and it assumes you are going to go wherever it goes, no. Nov 19, 2012 harrison ford lesleyanne down original music by john barry. If you like hanover street you are looking for humorous, semi serious and realistic movies about with secret mission, war, secret agents, romance, couple relations, love triangle and love and romance themes of action, adventure and drama genre shot in uk. In an attempt to find something nice to say aside from harrison looks bangable ill say that it has nice sound. Finally, the hanover street script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie starring harrison ford. Battle angel quotes an american tail mistake picture. Unless you had tremedous recall of all the bit roles in american grafitti or the conversation, the first time the world at large set their eyes on harrison ford was in the little indie that could. Hanover street peter hyams data corrections allmovie. The following day, hallorans squadron is sent to bomb rouen. Hanover street 1979 stream and watch online moviefone.
Unfortunately its meant to be a love story set against a war. During an air raid, halloran meets and falls in love with beautiful briton. The story is set at a massachusetts school for girls in the 1950s. Not only that, margaret is never fleshed out as a character, so we dont even care about her. Hanover street is about wartime romance, a theme that i find underexploited in hollywood, and any movie starring harrison ford is almost always very good to excellent in my book. Gungho american world war ii bomber pilot falls for an already married english rose during teatime rendezvous in wartorn hanover street. It is your typical two soldiers are vying for the same girl plot. During the second world war, an american pilot stationed in england meets a young british nurse during an air raid on london. Mankiewicz known for all about eve jeanne crain, linda darnell, ann southern premise three wives from a semiupperclass neighborhood receive a letter from a girlfriend who has just moved away from town. The halloran role was originally to be played by kris kristofferson, but it is a testament to fords personality and acting that it is hard to imagine the movie as it was originally cast.
At its heart, the movie wants to be both actionadventure and romance, but in doing so, the movie takes on a very schizophrenic approach and at times seems to almost splinter into two separate movies. Hanover street film culture wikia fandom powered by. All harrison ford movies ranked by tomatometer movies ranked by tomatometer. An american bomber pilot falls in love with a married nurse in london during the second world war, and later finds himself assigned with her husband on the same dangerous mission, leading to much.
With no previous acting reference points for most audiences, ford was han solo, the glumly debonair and seductive space rogue who gave a dash. The film entitled hanover street was released in 1979. At the presidio army base in san francisco, mp patti jean lynch is shot dead while investigating a breakin and two san francisco police officers are killed in the getaway. Sure, paul and halloran get stuck behind enemy lines together, but nothing much comes of it. Hanover street is a 1979 angloamerican wartime romantic film, written and directed by peter hyams, and starring harrison ford, lesleyanne down and. Hanover street is a film directed by peter hyams with harrison ford, lesleyanne down, christopher plummer, alec mccowen, year. Stanton, and stars pamela sue martin, parker stevenson and betsy slade. Farewell to arms is the second film version of ernest hemingways world war one noveland also the last film produced by david o. It stars meenakshi sheshadri, jackie shroff and raj babbar in lead roles along with smita patil, aruna irani, zarina wahab and shafi inamdar in supporting roles. One of the movies ford chose was the world war ii romantic drama hanover street in the role of american bomber pilot david halloran who falls for married english nurse margaret sellinger. The planes starboard engine is hit, but the fire is put out. This movie has been premiered in australian hd theatres in 1979 movies 1979. Hanover street is a 1979 angloamerican wartime romantic film, written and directed by peter.
Presumably the fragile brief encounters of war had some. Aug 15, 2006 its not overly strong enough to support the length of the movie though. Dahleez is a 1986 indian bollywood film directed by ravi chopra and produced by b. In the letter, the friend says she has run off with one of the three womens husbands. Hanover street script transcript from the screenplay and. They meet again two weeks later in a secret assignation in hanover street. Throwback to all the wwii romantic hollywood films of the 1940s like waterloo bridge and this above all. Hangover square film hangover square is a 1945 film noir directed by john brahm, based on the novel hangover square 1941 by patrick hamilton. London has been used frequently both as a filming location and as a film setting. The screenplay was written by barre lyndon who made a number of changes to the novel, including the change of george harvey bone into a classical composerpianist and filming the story as an early 20thcentury period piece.
Jan 29, 2014 wartorn europe is the setting for this romantic actionadventure about the fateful entanglements of two men in love with the same woman. What peter hyams has achieved with hanover street, his new film about a wartime romance set in the london of 1943, is a movie that is. In london during the second world war, lieutenant david halloran, an american b25 bomber pilot with the eighth air force based in england, and margaret sellinger, an english nurse, meet on hanover street in a chance encounter. David halloran, is stationed in england near war stricken london. Hanover street script transcript from the screenplay andor. Margaret is a nurse in england during ww2, and married to a secret agent. May 18, 1979 what peter hyams has achieved with hanover street, his new film about a wartime romance set in the london of 1943, is a movie that is almost as funny as woody allens whats up, tiger lily. Heartfelt, smart, and just an overall good war film. The ending, which i wont give away, is bittersweet, but enjoyable. When i read the synopsis for the plot of pearl i thought of hanover street right away. Pedestrian, brooding wwii period film features stoic harrison ford.