The Way to the Stars
1945 · TMDB 6.0
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
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Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during...
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- Runtime
- 109 min
- Released
- 1945-06-16
- Studio
- Two Cities Films
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.0
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Key contributors
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Anthony Asquith
Director
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Terence Rattigan
Writer
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Richard Sherman
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Anatole de Grunwald
Writer
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Michael Redgrave
Flight Lt. David Archdale
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John Mills
Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
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Rosamund John
Miss Todd
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Douglass Montgomery
Johnny Hollis
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Renée Asherson
Iris Winterton
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Basil Radford
'Tiny' Williams
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Felix Aylmer
Rev. Charles Moss