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21 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This is an enjoyable conspiracy thriller in the manner of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May, starring the fetching Romola Garai as Anne, politically naive movie star and adopted daughter of a rich Tory MP with a country estate in Norfolk, who, in the long hot summer of 1939, stumbles across an establishment plot involving the Sis and the aristocracy. They'll stop at nothing, including blackmail and assassination, to keep Britain from going to war, and when war breaks out, to making peace with Nazi Germany. There's a remarkable British cast, and the film holds up well until the last couple of reels. But there's some clunking dialogue, and as history it's fuzzy and unconvincing. The nods towards Hitchcock remind us that in 1938 the Master made an allegorical masterpiece about Munich and appeasement, his greatest British movie, The Lady Vanishes.

Period and historicalThrillerPhilip French

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1 article from 2009