The Captive Heart (1946)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Basil Dearden

Escritores:

Patrick Kirwan (story)
Angus MacPhail (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 abril 1946 (UK)

Género:

Guerra | Drama

Frase comercial:

Would you forge love letters to save your life?

Plot:

In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.

Plot Keywords:

Prisoner Of War | Ealing | Impersonation | Corporal | WWII

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A low key, but highly charged stiff-upper-lip flick

Reparto

Michael Redgrave	...	Capt. Karel Hasek, alias Geoffrey Mitchell
Rachel Kempson	...	Celia Mitchell
Frederick Leister	...	Mr. Mowbray
Mervyn Johns	...	Pte. Don Evans
Rachel Thomas	...	Di Evans
Jack Warner	...	Cpl. Ted Horsfall
Gladys Henson	...	Flo Horsfall
James Harcourt	...	Doctor
Gordon Jackson	...	Lieut. David Lennox
Elliott Mason	...	Mrs. Lennox (as Elliot Mason)
Margot Fitzsimons	...	Elspeth McDougall
David Keir	...	Mr. McDougall
Derek Bond	...	Lieut. Stephen Harley
Jane Barrett	...	Caroline Harley
Meriel Forbes	...	Beryl Curtiss

Duración:

104 min | USA:86 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #11953) | Finland:S

Locaciones de Filmación:

Aston Rowant Station, Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Compañía:

Ealing Studios

Trivialidades:

Some of the actors, including Derek Bond and Sam Kydd, had actually been POWs during World War II.

Citas:

Maj. 'Ossy' Dalrymple: [sees the camp approaching and decides he and his men will enter smartly] March to attention!

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Forever Ealing (2002) (TV)

A low key, but highly charged stiff-upper-lip flick

Great plot, excellently under-stated performances, writing and direction. The fact that this film was made in 1946, so close to the events its depicts, seems to add an almost documentary-like quality to this film. Indeed, in the opening credits, the line 'Filmed in the British Zone of Western Germany' suggest that the realistic prison-camp scenes were probably shot in genuine locations. The cast is almost a repertory company of British 1940s actors - but no-one is taking an easy ride. There are fresh and challenging performances, even though the faces are familiar. What struck me is how the film is free of the gung-ho 'smart prisoners, dumb Krauts' type of prison camp film that dominated the genre later on. This film is the product of a people tired of war. At the same time, it retains some of the stiff upper lip feel of many British wartime films, but with the confidence of victory, it does not need to indulge in the 'beastly Hun' elements. Moving without being sentimental. A very 'human' film, only a few steps short of a masterpiece.