id that they would attack London because the British had attacked Berlin. I am not sure whether that is a true reason or not. The viewers’ opinions that were included in a handout from a web page were all pretty similar. Most of them liked the fighting scenes with the planes. They liked the authenticity of the planes. But most of them also found the non-battle scenes to be dull and uninteresting. I agree with this view. I thought that the movie was hard to follow. I could not tell the difference between the planes and I did not know who was getting killed. I did not know any of the characters. I liked the fight scenes, but otherwise I did not enjoy this movie. Mrs. MiniverDirector: William WylerScreenwriter: George Froeschel and James HiltonFilm Genre: Drama/WarCast: Greer Carson, Richard Ney, Teresa Wright, Walter PidgeonThis was another movie that dealt with the Battle of Britain. It followed the life of the Miniver family during the days leading up to and after the Battle of Britain during World War II. This family was a pretty well off English family. They had a son that had just graduated from Oxford and two other kids. The son joins the RAF. He then gets married to Carol Beldon. Carol was worried about how long she would get to spend with her new husband. She braced herself for his death. In the end, though, she was the one who was shot. I thought that some parts of the film were realistic and others were not. I did not think that the Miniver family was a typical family. They were kind of like a “Leave it to Beaver” family in that they seemed to all be saints and always did the right thing. That part of the movie was unrealistic. I think that another unrealistic part was the ages between the mother and the son. Greer Carson was 34 when the film was made and her son, Richard Ney, was 24. She looked much too young to be his mother. The part where the father (Clem Miniver) went by boat...
