The Miniver Story
H. C. Potter (1950)

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1950, 104 MINS, UK/US

  • Dir: H. C. Potter
  • Prod: Sidney Franklin
  • Scr: Ronald Millar, George Froeschel
  • Ph: Joseph Ruttenberg
  • Ed: Harold F. Kress, Alfred Junge
  • Mus: Mikios Rozsa
  • Art Dir: Alfred Junge

    CAST:

  • Greer Garson
  • Walter Pidgeon
  • John Hodiak
  • Leo Genn
  • Cathy 0'Donnell
  • Peter Finch

    (M-G-M)

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    No one seriously expected a second Mrs Miniver when The Miniver Story was in the making. It is difficult to capture the magical quality of the original, and this trades on its predecessor's name and the drawing power of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.

    Opening with a strangely pallid reproduction of London on VE day, Mrs Miniver finds herself caught in the exuberant melee following the news that the war is over. She has just come from a doctor, realizes she has not long to live and bravely determines to keep the news from her family.

    There are positives and the chief laurels go to Greer Garson who, even with the unmistakable signs of illness and mental stress, makes feasible the husband's claim that she looks as lovely as ever.

    John Hodiak gives a fine clear-cut performance.

    The negatives are that this is, plain and simple, an appalling movie. The spirit of the original movie is missing; in fact the spirit of this film is nowhere. Made to cash in on the original, this film is filming by numbers. You have been warned.


    1 STAR OUT OF 5



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