I believe the majority of the likeness is "fictional RAF station written by Terence Rattigan." It is full of aircraft and actors with good faces, though, and its retrospective frame is one of those neat little shifts of reality because to a post-war audience it looks completely normal to open on a derelict airfield before rolling back to fill in its wartime past, but the film itself was released between V-E Day and V-J Day; it was projecting the war-won future that hadn't quite happened yet.
That sounds very cool, and since I have now started being completist about Rattigan to make up for lost time, I will most likely get to it if there's a Network DVD, because those are usually still around somewhere as yet. <3
(I think I may have previously muddled it with The Stars Look Down which is a Carol Reed film with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave that I should, on paper, have liked a lot, but sadly did not. I gave the dvd to my sister to sell on eBay for me, and then my Mum bought it back and felt much the same, lol.)
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I popped them on tumblr here: https://www.tumblr.com/thisbluespirit/771506151522287616/denholm-elliott-in-the-man-who-loved-redheads?source=share
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I believe the majority of the likeness is "fictional RAF station written by Terence Rattigan." It is full of aircraft and actors with good faces, though, and its retrospective frame is one of those neat little shifts of reality because to a post-war audience it looks completely normal to open on a derelict airfield before rolling back to fill in its wartime past, but the film itself was released between V-E Day and V-J Day; it was projecting the war-won future that hadn't quite happened yet.
That sounds very cool, and since I have now started being completist about Rattigan to make up for lost time, I will most likely get to it if there's a Network DVD, because those are usually still around somewhere as yet. <3
(I think I may have previously muddled it with The Stars Look Down which is a Carol Reed film with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave that I should, on paper, have liked a lot, but sadly did not. I gave the dvd to my sister to sell on eBay for me, and then my Mum bought it back and felt much the same, lol.)