![]() ![]() ![]() Now to find another "lost" Nevil Shute movie: Landfall. But the movie is worth seeing, and worth releasing on DVD. (2) The aforementioned Preminger is over the top in his portrayal - which was of course standard in 1942. whatever - it is a fascinating story of courage and determination. Maybe Shute based his character on this man. There is a Statue of him on Prague Railway Station. (Baxter's French accent is very convincing.) Two gripes: (1) the film is shot mostly in darkness and in close quarters, and one yearns for the director to open it up. there was a real life ' Pied Piper' a Nicholas Winton who brought 669 children out of Nazi Europe in 2's and 3's to safety. Among the children are Roddy MacDowall and Peggy Ann Garner, and Ann Baxter plays a French girl who helps Monty and his charges elude the Germans. Other children join the group along the way, with the German army always around the next corner, leading to an exciting finale when the group is captured by a Nazi commander, played by Otto Preminger. Monty Woolley is perfect in the lead, a crusty Brit on vacation in Switzerland who is persuaded, with WW2 imminent, to take a friend's two small children to safety in England. The Pied Piper is a 1942 American film in which an Englishman on vacation in France is caught up in the German invasion of that country, and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety. Finally tracked down a tape of this 1942 filming of the Nevil Shute novel, and found it quite enjoyable. ![]()
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