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This Land is Mine

1943

Jean Renoir

Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak ...

7.9

4,594

Drama A mild-mannered schoolteacher in a Nazi occupied town during WWII finds himself being torn between collaboration and resistance.

	Author	Review
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"A story cleanly and maturely told (...) It makes some points which cannot be over-stressed (...) There are artistic faults in this picture (...) It should have been stronger drama than it is."	NEU
United States	Variety	"A steadily engrossing film (...) The individual roles are rewarding and the performances impressive"	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Auty Time Out	"[Laughton] and O'Hara are fine, but the film's main attractions remain the elegant Renoir set-ups (...) and the script's unusual ethical stance"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"This bland picture, made with virtually no enthusiasm for its clichéd villagers and hysterical Nazis, had little dramatic or propagandist value (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The screenplay, by Dudley Nichols, is pure jingo, but Renoir's work with Laughton creates an unusually human portrait of heroism"	NEU

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