Well Meet Again Dont Know Where Dont Know When Movie
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Vera Lynn was a wonderful vocalizer with a beautiful voice, with some great songs under her belt, her about famous being "We'll Meet Again". Named later on that vocal, 'We'll Encounter Once again' is her film debut in her outset of her five films.
While non a great film, it is worth seeing for fans of Lynn. 'Nosotros'll Meet Again' is not the most visually or technically accomplished film, and the story structurally and sometimes momentum wise isn't the best, occasionally a niggling heavy-handed.
It is however well worth watching for Lynn, essentially playing herself just doing so with enormous charm. She is well supported by irreverent turns from Frederick Leister and Betty Jardine and a moving ane from Brefni O'Rorke.
The music is lovely and makes great utilise of Lynn's wonderful voice. The script is fun, sweet and charming and some of the pacing is sprightly enough, the film assuredly directed.
Overall, a nice moving picture. eight/10 Bethany Cox
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Rather entertaining for what information technology is
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This was a film I had been wanting to see for ages, being a big fan of Dame Vera Lynn and information technology being one of 3 films she made. Information technology was named after her most famous song, "We'll Encounter Again", and filmed during the war in 1942 when the Forces Sweetheart was at the elevation of her popularity. I finally managed to come across a copy on video loaned to me by a friend. A shame it isn't available on DVD, every bit information technology'southward a fascinating period piece.
Naturally, it isn't the best or virtually groundbreaking film in the world. Merely it does entertain you for the 86 minutes it's on. That'south what I like in my movies: short and sugariness! The plot is a simple tale of success in World War 2-struck London for a young female dancer named Peggy Brown, who very surprisingly finds she has a lovely voice. She's meant to be reluctant to air it, just without any prompting, nearly the beginning of the film she decides to entertain a packed theatre during an air raid. And what a wonderful performance it is. Information technology's not bad to see Vera singing one of her early classics, "Be Like The Kettle And Sing".
From here, nosotros presently detect Peggy has a male person friend who composes classical music, and in something of a cliché he turns his nose upward at "that pop music rubbish". However in the space of a few minutes Peggy manages to persuade him information technology's non so bad after all, and he miraculously finds he is capable of composing popular music also! He writes a vocal which turns out to be quite expert - only again his female companion is reluctant to exist a singing star. Naturally she ends upwardly singing on the record and quite past error it gets played past the BBC. Everyone loves her voice and presently she finds she is fronting a weekly radio serial (art mirroring life, every bit we all know Vera did a radio series entitled 'Sincerely Yours' during the war years).
In the middle of this there is a plot involving ane of Peggy's one-time friends from school, a Scottish soldier who happens to be marrying ane of her newer friends. A immature boy Peggy knows (possibly her blood brother, though it is never made clear whether she is related to the people who live in her dwelling house!) is depressed at home so she takes him to this female person friend of her'south who lives in the land, he decides he likes information technology and stays there. Peggy manages to become the formerly engaged couple dorsum together after they have apparently separate up. The female friend has his baby while he is serving, but shortly after sending good wishes to the couple on the air, she hears he has been killed in action. Now this isn't a serious film in any style, then of course it turns out he's but been injured.
And we assume they all live happily always later on, every bit the ending is pleasing (more of Vera singing) only doesn't tie up either of these main plots.
Overall, I enjoyed this film. Regardless of it's creative merits, it has a lot of employ as a piece of history, every bit it captures very well the entreatment of Dame Vera Lynn during World War II. Archive footage of her singing during the war is seldom seen, and then in this movie it is a joy to behold.
At that place is some overnice light one-act with the BBC boss'due south secretary, Miss Bohne, well played past Betty Jardine, who sadly died a few years after this motion picture was made. The acting is competent from all involved. Hard to guess Vera's performance every bit she was merely playing herself! Anyway, the film naturally ends with Vera singing Nosotros'll Meet Again. You go what you pay for.!
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Forces' Sweetheart
Vera Lynn'due south picture show debut is the only 1 of her three wartime starring vehicles in which she actually sings her most famous song - and simply briefly at the very finish. Barely recognisable as the handsome woman she subsequently became, Dame Vera is hither harshly made up and dressed, ungainly in front of the camera and plainly no extra. (Compare her here with her invitee appearance twenty years later every bit herself - which can be viewed on YouTube - looking ravishing in colour and in fine vox singing 'Wish Me Luck Equally You lot Moving ridge Me Goodbye' in the 1962 Danish wartime one-act-drama 'Venus fra Vestø'.)
The film is in places strangely disjointed. One character is barely introduced before being abruptly killed off offscreen in an air raid; and in a superbly photographed sequence worthy of Dreyer the uncredited child role player who is presumably her son is comforted past Vera earlier being packed off to the countryside. In an attempt to create some sort of narrative Vera is introduced as a dancer (although mayhap wisely nosotros're not shown her dancing) and her initial disinclination to switch professions and go a singer is rather laboured for the next few reels while throwing in the usual clichés about her persuading a songwriting friend to "come up out of the clouds", stop writing music for "stuffy onetime critics" and go With Information technology until Vera then has to abruptly fill up in for a workmate who fails to show upwardly at Dissemination House when the consequence is due to be recorded.
Quicker than you tin say 'Forces' Sweetheart' she now has her own radio show and is rubbing shoulders with the likes of Alvar Lidell; simply in acknowledgement of her and so rather homely advent nosotros adjacent get the other quondam cliché almost her nursing an unrequited passion for rugged Scots Guardsman Donald Gray (who was given exit from the army to make this moving picture, lost his left arm in French republic in 1944 and consequently became famous on Boob tube as the one-armed detective Mark Saber during the late fifties).
In the heed's center, George Formby's credit equally Acquaintance Producer conjures up an entirely different film in its own right, probably with Formby in the process wrecking studio chief Peter Gawthorne'southward part...!
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We'll Run across Once more
You e'er knew there was going to be a state of war on when in that location were confirmed sightings of Vera Lynn gargling her throat.
That joke withal works because Dame Vera was still alive and going strong at the age of 103 in April 2020.
When there is a worldwide pandemic going on, get into the rush spirit with We'll Run into Again. I am sure fifty-fifty during World War two, some spiv was buying up all the toilet rolls hoping to sell information technology on for 10 times the price.
Lynn plays Peggy, a dancer with a practiced singing vocalization but she is reluctant to sing in public. With the help of a composer friend, Peggy ends up singing on a demo when the singer fails to evidence up.
Peggy quickly becomes a star when the record is a hit on the radio.
The film has Vera'south signature song at the end. It is a simple story, quickly made equally a moral booster for the troops.
It is not a bully picture show, the antics with the BBC secretarial assistant and her boss is tiresome.
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A quaint and (perhaps) mannerly snapshot
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Although I'm an gorging 'old motion-picture show' aficionado, this film is... not the best.
Starting with the bad points..
The motion-picture show seems quite forced in many ways, not least due to the very poor quality interim. Of class, we mustn't forget that Vera Lynn was in no way an actress only, it seems, neither was anyone else in the movie. The phoney Scottish accents too were pretty ludicrous... and obvious.
The good points...
Although, overall, the film did come across as rather stilted and contrived, it did serve as an excellent, quaint and (well-nigh) mannerly snapshot of wartime Great britain focusing for the majority part on the everyday civilian.
Being from Edinburgh, it was very interesting, at one betoken, to run across a little of the city as was in 1943.
Despite the motion-picture show's title, the running theme for the movie seemed to be the song "After The Rain"... so perhaps *this* should've been the title as "We'll Meet Again" was not featured until close to the end... and fifty-fifty barely at that.
The moving-picture show was made obviously as a vehicle for the young, up-and-coming Vera Lynn.. and it worked well with this, and her wonderful phonation, in mind.
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