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Mrs. Miniver

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

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The Miniver Story

Original title: Mrs. Miniver
Year: 1942
Running time: 134 min.
Country: United States
Director: William Wyler
Screenwriter: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West. Novel: Jan Struther
Music: Herbert Stothart
Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg (B&W)
Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Christopher Severn, Richard Ney, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, Peter Lawford, Reginald Owen, Henry Wilcoxon, Tom Conway
Producer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Genre: Drama | II World War. Propaganda. Family Relationships
Synopsis: A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk, the discovery of a wounded Nazi pilot, the death of the daughter-in-law in an air raid, and the entry of the son into the Royal Air Force. The scenes culminate in a morale-boosting final speech that President Franklin Roosevelt ordered printed and air-dropped over war-torn Europe. Condensed from the novel by Jan Struther.

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#83 Best Movies and TV Series about the Second World War

Awards: 1942: 6 Academy Awards: including Movie, Director, Actress (Greer Garson). 12 Nominations

1942: Film Critics Circle of New York: Nominated for Best Actress (Greer Garson)

Critics' reviews

"One of the strongest pieces of propaganda against complacency to come out of the war."

Herb Golden: Variety
"The finest film yet made about the present war [WWII], and a most exalting tribute to the British."

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times
"As the story unreels, one can feel the warmth of the writers' and director's hearts for their subject and inspired playing of the cast."

Kate Cameron: New York Daily News
"The most famous and perhaps most effective propaganda film of World War II (...) [It] has dated very badly; it's difficult now to see the qualities that wartime audiences found so assuring."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
"[It] stands taller than many of its Oscar-winning contemporaries because it has withstood the passage of time and is as effective and moving a drama today as it was when it first appeared on screens (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"Superb wartime melodrama (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Tony Sloman: Radio Times
"Winning WW II story of british pluck that manages to side-step the propaganda trap (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

David Parkinson: Empire
"Classic soap opera in which good old British understatement has a field day, everybody is frightfully nice, and sentimentality is wrapped up in yards of tasteful gloss."

Tom Milne: Time Out

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