ChikPapa Very disappointed :(

TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

drhugohackenbushmd What is this mess? Is it a romantic wartime comedy, perhaps a drama? The writers have gone to extreme lengths to add a touch of humor with lengthy conversation during a war in which London was to be bombed to dust, 50 to 70 million souls were to be given a return ticket to their maker. It doesn't work as a romance, war story, or comedy. There is one exhaustive dialogue with Richard Masur continuing his role as Rhoda Morgenstern's goofy sister's idiot boyfriend. Now this will really get you....you see it's a Christmas Party and Dance at the 8th Army AirForce headquarters outside London 2nd Lt Jerry Colombo played by Masur, calls this girl Sally or some name he thinks up, she corrects him saying "No, it's Phillys, he then introduces her as Molly, Diane, Trisha, to a succession of his crew members who walk up and she corrects him yet again "No, I'm Phillys" That scene takes up 2-3 minutes, then Good Ole Jerry starts up with his offers to take her to bed, she shoots him down on each one, rather nastily I would say. Finally he takes the direct approach, "Ya Wanna make love?". Phillys really lights up and says YES. That bit of belly laughs eats up another 2-4 minutes of sheer boredom. Hans Solo or Harrison Ford returns to play his American Graffiti character, he's moody with a few temper tantrums playing the understated loner. Only this isn't American Grafitti. The plot has Ford becoming pocessive of a married woman (Downs), married to Christopher Plummer, to then have Ford and Plummer's character meeting. WW II film lovers, will find zillions of errors, the 8th Army Air Force flew B-17's and B-24's not the B-26's used in the film. If you are a spy parachuting into the enemy's lair you don't leave your chute in the trees or peel off and drop on the ground, items that would lead the enemy to your location. Nor do you dash through enemy territory in broad daylight. Find a copy of The War Lover, or 12 O'Clock High.

Kirpianuscus the story. the acting. the romanticism in the war time. and the sacrifice. pillars of a classic about choices, friendship, honor, love and importance of meetings. its seduction force - to remind old things who define an universe of world out ordinary rules. its virtue - to mix in coherent manner different stories who becomes one with many sides. a beautiful film for the admirable performances. and for the art of detail. for a form of heroism who remains noble and impressive and touching, remembering the Medieval stories. and for the atmosphere who defines in brilliant manner the drama of the lead characters. it could be discovered as classic romance or as war story. in essence, it is an admirable story about values.

bkoganbing Hanover Street is one of those old fashioned wartime romances so popular on both sides of the pond during and after World War II. At a time when a lot of people and nations united to defeat a generally recognized menace to civilization folks were in a sacrificing mood.American flier Harrison Ford and British army nurse Lesley Anne Down meet on Hanover Street and the chemistry is high voltage electric. Soon they are in an affair, but Down doesn't tell Ford she's already slightly married to Christopher Plummer.Plummer is in British Intelligence, a researcher and a trainer, but yearns for some field action feeling that Down might see him in a better life as he has suspicions that she's drifting away. Wouldn't you know it he takes on a field mission that involves him pretending to be an S.S. officer and he's to go to some S.S. headquarters in occupied France and steal some vital plans. This is the kind of plot that was popular during World War II years. The most famous were those sought after 'letters of transit' in Casablanca.That field mission puts him on Harrison Ford's bomber and when it's hit both have to bail out and Ford becomes part of the mission.Hanover Street is so old fashioned though Ford seems to borrow a bit of Han Solo from the future in his portrayal of the flier that it really belongs in the Forties. Only that Ford and Down are actually shown if discreetly having a sexual relationship that the Code would never permit you would swear this was a Forties film. In fact think Casablanca if want to know how this ends.If you like romances, Hanover Street is for you.

SimonJack More romance war movies were made about American GIs in England than in all other countries combined. And, it's no wonder since Great Britain was the marshaling area for the largest invasion force in history. It was the headquarters of the Allied European command during World War II. It was the home of more U.S. Army Air Force bases than all other locations combined. And, by the end of the war, some two million Americans had been in England. So, of course there would be many romances between GIs and British women. At the end of the war, the U.S. Army transported some 70,000 British war brides to America. The clichés aside (some Brits, especially men, took to seeing the Yanks as "overpaid, oversexed and over here," while some Americans had a comeback that the Brits were "underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower"), there were many matches that ended in marriage. Others ended unhappily when the GIs died in battle. But, the largest number most likely were romances that ended in time. There probably were some that involved infidelity and adultery, such as in this movie. And, most of those likely resolved in the end. A line at the very end of this film, summarizes the plight of all of the various war time romances nicely. Harrison Ford, playing David Halloran, says, "Things work out the way they're supposed to." Perhaps some people would see this as a real love story between two people – Halloran and Margaret Sellinger, played by Lesley-Anne Down. In my younger years I might have. But age and experience bring insights that enable us to see beyond idealistic longings, emotions and the strong hormonal drives of younger years. I think this film shows a little bit the struggle the married Margaret has over their affair. David admits his struggle, especially after having been on a mission with her husband, Paul, played by Christopher Plummer. Whether or not theirs was truly love, or just a strong romance brought on by the time and circumstances, the movie ending appropriately says that life will go on, and they will be OK. Because of the variety of scenes – the city streets of London, the bombing of the city, the B-25s at the airfield, and the bombing runs made by the Americans, I think this film has some historical value. But, the script otherwise is thin. The mission that David and Paul are on almost seems stagy at times. Plummer does a very good job in his role – I think the best of the film. But, otherwise, this isn't a very dynamic script. Two aspects of "Hanover Street" bothered me. Having seen films such as "Twelve O'Clock High" that so well depict the strain and stress that the pilots and their commanders had, I found the flippancy of Ford's character in the mission briefings not very real or believable. His disrespect for his CO just doesn't gel well. C'mon! This guy is an officer in the Army Air Force, not one of the social outcasts picked for a mission in "The Dirty Dozen." Other films show very well the anguish that commanders suffered for the lives of the men who didn't return from missions. That whole part of this film didn't seem real. And with that, I very soon had enough of Richard Masur's constantly complaining character, 2nd Lieutenant Jerry Cimino. Another 1979 film about romance by American GIs in England came out later that year. "Yanks" starred Richard Gere, but had a much larger cast and a very engrossing plot. It is about three different romances, each one of a different type and result. It's a very good look at the British people during the war. The romances and loves are treated more realistically and deeply in that film. And, one of the old war romances is the 1940 film, "Waterloo Bridge," that stars Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. That one involved adultery on the part of the American, in another love triangle. It too resolved in the end with a believable outcome.