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Encyclopedia > Hanover Street

Hanover Street is a 1979 movie directed by Peter Hyams, starring Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down. Set during World War II, Ford plays a bomber pilot serving with the Eighth Air Force in the UK. Down plays a nurse, married to an intelligence agent played by Christopher Plummer. 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Peter Hyams (born 26 July 1943) is an American film director. ... Harrison Ford Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor who, between 1977 and 1983, appeared in what were then four of the top ten highest-grossing movies ever. ... Categories: Actor stubs | 1954 births | English actors | Soap opera actors ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Eighth Air Force was a World War II, United States Army Air Force unit, which carried out day-time bombing operations in western Europe from airfields in eastern England from 1942. ... Christopher Plummer photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1959 Christopher Plummer (full name Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC) (born Friday, December 13, 19291) is a Canadian theatrical, film and television actor. ...


As a movie this has been largely forgotten, though since its re-release on DVD in 2001, has been noticed again, and has been compared (favourably) to the much later The English Patient. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English Patient is a novel by Michael Ondaatje which deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a thief, and a British Army sapper as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian monastery. ...


Aviation buffs will also enjoy the flying sequences, which were mostly filmed at the by then-disused Bovingdon airfield using some classic WW2 aircraft flown over to England specially for the filming. Bovingdon Bovingdon is a village in the Chiltern Hills, in Hertfordshire, England, close to the town of Hemel Hempstead. ...


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Hanover Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (151 words)
Hanover Street is a 1979 movie written and directed directed by Peter Hyams, starring Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down.
Hanover Street appeared old-fashioned on its original release and has been largely forgotten, though since its re-release on DVD in 2001, it has been noticed again, and compared to the much later film The English Patient.
Aviation buffs will also enjoy the flying sequences, which were mostly filmed at the by then-disused Bovingdon airfield using a number of North American B-25's, some of which were flown over to England specially for the filming.
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