Never ever saw this film before until a lab tech friend videoed this and presented it to me. Well all I can say is this film had me captive to my seat.
Michael Redgrave gave a splendid performance as Capt. Karel Hasek, alias Geoffrey Mitchell.
There is a close uncanny connection from this film to the Great Escape
Gordon Jackson .... Lt. David Lennox and I'm thinking there is someone else
that had a connection between the two films. I lost the video but remember a great performance and one I sat down to watch time and time again.
Made in 1946 and It had taken me until 1996 to see this film and in the States
The IMDb only lists Gordon Jackson as being in both films.Originally Posted by BritATit
There's a useful facility at The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) where you can give the names of two (or more) films or TV shows and they'll tell you who was in both (or all) of them. It checks for common cast & crew.
I'm surprised there weren't more people in common between both films. They were both prison camp dramas of course.
Steve
Sorry for the delay but thanks for the info Steve.:
WOW! How cool is this! I am ALWAYS wanting to do this but never even tried it. THANKS for the great tip! Next time my Mr SmartyPants wants a brownie bet, I can use this against him AND get the last brownie!
There's a similarly useful one at The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) that lets you enter the names or two (or more) peple and see which titles they worked on together.
One of the reasons I like the IMDb is that it's a proper database with (almost) everything cross referenced and it lets you do some complex searches like these.
Steve
I wish I knew how to do this with a television episode and film on the IMDB.
The one I mentioned first above shows you who was involved in two or more titles (film & TV) although it only works on series titles for TV series, not episode titles. And some things, like Cathy Come Home are episode titles (it was an episode of The Wednesday Play)
Steve
Didn't watch this the other afternoon when it was on but walked in on the scene where Jack Warner leads off the opposition singing.... Roll out the barrel, I think. The scene was in the exercise yard of a prisone camp and as the camera panned around it was like watching an ID parade of famous, half-forgotten and forgotten British actors. The one's I recall now were Michael Redgrave, Jack Warner and Sam Kydd but it seemed virtually every face in the crowd was somebody I at least recognised, even if I couldn't put a name to them!! I'm sure there's more uncredited that haven't made the imdb list yet...
recorded this the other day, maybe tonight I will watch this very good film again. Jack Warner & Gladys Henson play man and wife for the first time.
Well worth a look this one. Seems to have been overlooked recently but I think it stands up very well.
They showed The Captive Heart on Channel 5 at the weekend far too many breaks one after every 15 minutes or 20 minutes. The print wasn't the best I have too say. Although, I understand that the film has been released on DVD.
I only came into the film about half way and seeing the condition,I thought it was older than 1946 when it was made,but then on realising what the film was about,I figured it was made during or after the war. I might buy it off Play.com,as I had never seen the film before and it looked good - mind anything with Jack Warner was in,was good.
Ta Ta
Marky B
I only came into the film about half way and seeing the condition,I thought it was older than 1946 when it was made,but then on realising what the film was about,I figured it was made during or after the war. I might buy it off Play.com,as I had never seen the film before and it looked good - mind anything with Jack Warner was in,was good.
Ta Ta
Marky B
Hi Marky, watched this last night, fabulous film. There is a particular tearjerking moment with Mervyn Johns towards the end. Jimmy Hanley,Jack,Gladys and Basil Radford are all on top form.
Hi Marky, agree with your comments about Jack Warner. Interestingly, I saw one of his films the other day - 'My Brother's Keeper' - where, for once, he was on the wrong side of the law. Very good he was too.
I watched this film this afternoon as my bank holiday treat (since the Great Escape, almost unbelievably, wasn't on). One of my all-time favourites and the long sequence culminating in the chorus of Roll Out the Barrell is possibly my favourite scene ever. There's a heart-stopping moment when Jack Warner looks really panic stricken because nobody joins in until - hurrah - Major Basil Radford sees an opportunity to boost morale. Does anybody know anything about the filming - supposedly in a camp that had only been vacated a few weeks earlier? One wonders what Derek Bond thought about the irony of his first role in years being recreating his occupation of most of the war.
And I notice that there will be some good news for the Bogarde Brigade in the good Doctor's next posting - The Blue Lamp.
Nick
Better not add anything in case I upset the more sensitive souls here...
The prison camp drama to compare with The Captive Heart is Albert RN in which, confusingly, Jack Warner is the Senior Officer, Guy Middleton is also there, and they all go on about escaping all the time rather than getting down the the proper POW duty of trying to recruit a decent cricket team
As an aside, I've never seen anyone comment on the fact that Dr James Harcourt seems to suggest that Rachel Thomas has an abortion. Is this the earliest mention in a British film?
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