The Way to the Stars
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 17, 2011
- Originally Released: 1945
- Label: Vci Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Redgrave, Bonar Colleano, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Rosamund John & Douglass Montgomery | |
Directed by | Anthony Asquith | |
Screenwriting by | Anatole de Grunwald, Terence Rattigan & John Pudney | |
Composition by | Nicholas Brodszky | |
Director of Photography: | Derek Williams |
Entertainment Reviews:
80%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 114
Rating: 8/10 --
...good, straight-ahead drama, with fine acting and solid direction.
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Movie Metropolis
No other film has so subtly and so truthfully portrayed the life of the airman in war, its problems, its hazards, its exaggerated casualness towards death, its courage, its humour, its comradeship.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Product Description:
Originally released in England as THE WAY TO THE STARS, JOHNNY IN THE CLOUDS is the story of how the Battle of Britain affected the lives of combatants and civilians alike. Terence Rattigan's screenplay concentrates on three groups of people: an American pilot and his wife, a doomed British officer with a wife and child, and a young couple who plan to marry despite the precariousness of wartime romances. Most of the action takes place at an air base and the neighboring village, where the private citizens react to rationing and other restrictions with various degrees of nobility and selfishness. The American title of this film is derived from the poem "Johnny in the Clouds," recited in tribute to the decease British airman; the U.S. version, which was released after the war, includes a prologue set in the deserted air base, with the bulk of the film offered as a flashback.
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- UPC: 089859863820
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