Thursday, 7 August 2014

Roses and stiff upper lip

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Directed by William Wyler this film based on the novel of the same name stars Geer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright and Reginald Owen. Family life in a village outside London is disrupted by the start of the Second World War.

Despite being set in England this film is very much an American made film that was co-opted as a propaganda piece as the US entered the war. The plot is a fairly standard slice of home front drama from a middle class point of view that does not really show the true hardships faced by some. At times it does show that the film was made in the US but not egregiously so.


3/5

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