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Yellow Canary
Blonde and Beautiful...Despised and Hated!...
In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.
- Original title
- Yellow Canary
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
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CinemaSerf
Jun 26, 2022 · via TMDB
Anna Neagle ("Sally") is quite efficient as the supposed Nazi sympathiser who abandons her family in a frequently bombed London and heads to the safety of Nova Scotia. En route, she attracts the attention of both the suave Polish officer "Jan Orlock" (Albert Lieven) and of the apparently hapless British one - Richard Greene ("Garrick") on the boat. On arrival, she befriends the mother of "Orlock" (Lucie Mannheim) and our story of espionage and counter-espionage begins in earnest. Nobody is exactly - or even remotely - whom they say they are and Herbert Wilcox manages to keep us guessing for much of the film, helped by three decent lead performances and quite a good story. Margaret Rutherford has some fun, in her very typical fashion to add a bit of light comedy (and sheer bloody mindedness) to the mix too and all told, this is a gently engaging tale of courage and bravery that is just about plausible.
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Anna Neagle
Sally Maitland
Richard Greene
Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick
Nova Pilbeam
Betty Maitland
Albert Lieven
Jan Orlock
Lucie Mannheim
Madame Orlock
Marjorie Fielding
Lady Maitland
Franklin Dyall
Captain Foster
Margaret Rutherford
Mrs. Towcester
Valentine Dyall
German Commander
Sybille Binder
Madame Orlock's Attendant
Cyril Fletcher
And Introducing Entertainer
Leslie Dwyer
Ship's Steward
Ian Fleming
Observe Corpsman in Opening Scene
David Horne
Admiral
Eliot Makeham
Observer Corpsman in Opening Scene
Aubrey Mallalieu
Reynolds
Paul Dupuis
Intelligence Officer
Herbert Wilcox
Director
Herbert Wilcox
Producer
Miles Malleson
Screenplay
Lady at Number 16
The Longest Tunnel
The Film Narrator
The Great Dictator
Casablanca
Falklands' Most Daring Raid
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Great Escape
Downfall
Notorious
Children of Men
The Train
Enemy at the Gates
One Way Passage
The Mortal Storm
Pierrot le Fou
Conspiracy
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Operation Petticoat
Max Manus: Man of War
Murder Ahoy
The Tin Drum
The Docks of New York
The Murderers Are Among Us
Devara: Part 1
The Assault
They Came to Blow Up America
Narvik
The Great Love
The Black Parachute
The Harmonists
Overlord
And Along Come Tourists
The Aryans
The Doom Generation
Two Years Before the Mast
Teheran '43
Rosenstrasse
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Germans
Frontier(s)
Appointment with Death
My Führer
Lebensborn
Ordered to Love
When Elvis Came to Visit
Bullets And Blueberries
The Guns of Navarone
Night Train to Munich
The Caine Mutiny
36 Hours
The Cruel Sea
The Bedford Incident
Battle of the Bulge
Escape to Victory
Sink the Bismarck!
The One That Got Away
Overlord
Battleground
The Last Rifleman
The Long Voyage Home
They Were Expendable
The Counterfeit Traitor
The Battle of the River Plate
The Devil's Brigade
Waiting for Anya
The Sea Chase
Emperor
Operation Pacific
The Truth About Emanuel
The Sea Wolves
The Quiller Memorandum
Ballistic
Apr 13, 1944
