Middle Course

1961 British film

Edward J. Danziger
Harry Lee Danziger

Starring

Vincent Ball
Lisa Daniely
Peter Illing

CinematographyJames Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson)Edited byBill LewthwaiteMusic byBill LeSage

Production
company

Danziger Productions

Distributed byUnited Artists Corporation (UK)

Release date

1961 (1961)

Running time

59 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

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. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
^ "The Middle Course". TVGuide.com.

External links

Middle Course at IMDb
The Middle Course at TCMDB

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