HOPE AND GLORY - Sarah Miles and John Boorman - VHS - NEW - PAL

Description: SARAH MILES DAVID HAYMAN DERRICK O'CONNOR SUSAN WOOLDRIDGE and IAN BANNEN star in A film by John Boorman HOPE AND GLORY It is 1939.A time of war and despair.A time of sharing and love.But most of all, a time of............ VHS - PAL - NEW - Never played!! - M-rated - Colour - 1987-release - 113-minutes - Comedy, Drama, Romance - Original VHS release in Australia - Large box ** NOTE: Small "crush" in top of spine on box - from years of storage in warehouse - no impact on box or VHS-tape ** A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up your school. Since I first saw it, 15 years ago, a little film in a little theater, I have regarded John Boorman's recollections of life as a grade-schooler during "The Blitz" as astonishing. Over the years I've used the movie to bring to life the very points that Anna Freud makes in her diaries of the "War Nurseries" she ran in Hampstead. While the movie is always entertaining, it nevertheless shows the effects on kids and families of life at home during a war: the separations, the losses, the physical damage, the inflammation of aggressive impulses in normal kids, the loosening of parental control over adolescents, the dropping of the curtains we use to keep kids from seeing more than they ought to. The film is wonderfully English, with customary attention to period detail, and a great collection of eccentric and memorable secondary characters. You've just got to see the geography lesson, featuring a middle-aged martinet school-marm who whacks away at a world map, using her pointer to punctuate her lesson on the vastness of England's pre-war empire. I have seen this movie on video, and can say that it translates well to the small screen. In fact it was created for British TV. See it. You'll laugh. You'll cry. And don't tell anyone - You'll learn something, too.

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