Dad's Army (1971)
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Norman Cohen
Cast: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie
Synopsis:
The Home Guard at Walmington-on-Sea are called into action to confront a Nazi threat.
Review:
The usual problems of opening out a TV half-hour success to feature length are courted here: a more realistic, location-based treatment raises expectations that cannot be met without destroying the fantasy; the genteel humour is coarsened somewhat by the increased permissiveness of a film venture; and the plot runs out of energy as peripheral character filling takes over. However, it does have the merit of affording a sighting of the enemy we always longed to see in force, and the performers are still at something like their peak.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Norman Cohen
Cast: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie
Synopsis:
The Home Guard at Walmington-on-Sea are called into action to confront a Nazi threat.
Review:
The usual problems of opening out a TV half-hour success to feature length are courted here: a more realistic, location-based treatment raises expectations that cannot be met without destroying the fantasy; the genteel humour is coarsened somewhat by the increased permissiveness of a film venture; and the plot runs out of energy as peripheral character filling takes over. However, it does have the merit of affording a sighting of the enemy we always longed to see in force, and the performers are still at something like their peak.
Country: GB
Technical: col 95m
Director: Norman Cohen
Cast: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie
Synopsis:
The Home Guard at Walmington-on-Sea are called into action to confront a Nazi threat.
Review:
The usual problems of opening out a TV half-hour success to feature length are courted here: a more realistic, location-based treatment raises expectations that cannot be met without destroying the fantasy; the genteel humour is coarsened somewhat by the increased permissiveness of a film venture; and the plot runs out of energy as peripheral character filling takes over. However, it does have the merit of affording a sighting of the enemy we always longed to see in force, and the performers are still at something like their peak.