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Despite being one of the few legendary films in history, Mrs. Miniver has not, unfortunately, lasted. Briefly, this 1942 William Wyler film follows the daily events in the life of the Minivers and their small suburb outside of London. Soon, even the harmony of the village is interrupted by German...
The family is the Minivers (Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon). The house is their spacious, chintzy, suburban home outside London. They are a happy couple in the lowering summer of 1939.
By sensitive understatement and more good humor than most Hollywood comedies achieve, Director Wyler sustains this warm chronicle of everyday tranquillity through the early days of the war and the bombing of London. With reticence, good taste, and an understanding of events, he reflects the war's global havoc...
The meaning of Dunkirk hits home when Mr. Miniver pilots his speedboat slowly down the Thames estuary with the flotilla of amateur navigators who set out to rescue their beaten Expeditionary Force. The Nazi mentality becomes viciously and pathetically real when Mrs. Miniver disarms a wounded German flyer in her...
The grand stage for this humanized history is just the Minivers' staircase, with its grandfather clock that is always a bit slow. It means Home, and the camera, by focusing on it, never lets you forget it. First to descend is Young Toby Miniver, who clumps down with his...
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