Hanover Street

Hanover Street (1979)

The fateful entanglements of two men in love with the same woman.

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Date of release
1979-05-18
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (116)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Director
Peter Hyams

Casting

Interesting facts

Hanover Street is a 1979 American-British romantic war film written and directed by Peter Hyams and starring Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down and Christopher Plummer. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Production

Peter Hyams' career was in a slump after the failure of Peeper (1975). He wrote the script for Telefon but was not able to direct it. He then wrote Hanover Street and said "that was a script that got a lot of attention and people wanted. I was offered an absolute fortune to sell the script but not direct it.

The film was said to have been inspired by the 1940 film Waterloo Bridge and "other pix of that ilk."

Kris Kristofferson was cast as the male lead in the film and Genevieve Bujold as the female lead. Kristofferson was intrigued by the aerial sequences he had read in the script, as he had served as a helicopter pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army for five years.

However, Kristofferson dropped out of the film. Harrison Ford, in Europe working on Force 10 from Navarone with Robert Shaw, was persuaded to take the lead role.

When Kristofferson dropped out, Bujold decided to leave the film as well. She was replaced by Lesley Anne Down. Down said she read the script quickly and only her part. "I expected it to be sweet, sickly and over the top and it was," she later said of the film.

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