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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 bomb, and the rest of the movie details the war's effects on Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson) and her family...
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon star in a 1942 classic, portraying the heroic British effort in World War II. The film features a model family in which the father, mother and son make their respective contributions to the war effort. Director William Wyler simultaneously develops two themes: the devastation of the war and the reluctance of the British to forgo their everyday lives. The engrossing melodrama brings home the message of the effects of the war on the homefront...
...armada of B-17s that bravely, and at terrible cost to both sides, failed to bomb Germany into submission during World War II. There was, as well, a previous movie that took its title from that plane: a documentary about its last mission, which director William Wyler made for the government in 1944. Despite the propaganda imperatives imposed on it, his film was rightly praised for its realistic portrayal...
...Wyler's daughter Catherine is a producer and the chief instigator of the new, fictive Memphis Belle, which displays the same flaws and virtues as her father's work. Despite the passage of a demythifying half-century, this well- cast plane crew (Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz, among others) remains as wartime Hollywood insisted on imagining it. These men are of diverse backgrounds, grousing (but never cynical), scared (but never immobilized), setting aside their small, usually comical, differences to form a unit that, in both efficiency and common decency, no tyranny could hope to beat. The presence of a smarmy...