Hanover Street
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| Hanover Street | |
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 DVD cover for the film |
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| 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.
[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] External links
- Hanover Street, Mayfair London
- Hanover Street at the Internet Movie Database
- Hanover Street at Rotten Tomatoes
- SoundtrackCollector page
- A modern-day tour of the film's title setting
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