Middle Course
Appearance
The Middle Course | |
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Directed by | Montgomery Tully |
Written by | Brian Clemens |
Produced by | Edward J. Danziger Harry Lee Danziger |
Starring | Vincent Ball Lisa Daniely Peter Illing |
Cinematography | James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson) |
Edited by | Bill Lewthwaite |
Music by | Bill LeSage |
Production company | |
Distributed by | United Artists Corporation (UK) |
Release date | 1961 |
Running time | 59 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Middle Course is a low budget 1961 British war film.[1]
Plot
During World War II, a Canadian pilot crash lands in a small French village occupied by German forces. The villagers find a useful ally in the young flyer, but the Germans become anxious to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance.
Cast
- Vincent Ball - Cliff
- Lisa Daniely - Anna
- Peter Illing - Gromik
- Roland Bartrop - Paul
- Marne Maitland - Renard
- Robert Rietti - Jacques
- André Maranne - Franz
- André Mikhelson - Commandant
- Jan Conrad - Herman
- John Serret - Leverne
- William Abney - Jaghorst
- Yvonne André - Martine
- Julian Sherrier - Villager
- Donald Tandy - Sgt. Wilhelm
- Jacques Cey - Pierre
Critical reception
TV Guide called the film "a predictable type of war drama that went out of fashion in the US ten years before this was made, but probably will always be resurrected in a nation that suffered so much at the time."[2]
References
- ^ "The Middle Course (1961)". BFI.
- ^ "The Middle Course". TVGuide.com.
External links