One of the great movies of all time. If the ending of this film didn't make one want to go out to fight in World War II or at least buy war bonds, then nothing would have. Considering when this film was made (Nov. 1941 to early 1942) those who would dismiss this movie solely as wartime propaganda has no sense of history or of quality moviemaking. My thanks to v1nc3ntw0ng for posting this video.
Mayer wanted British actress Greer Garson, his personal discovery, to star, but she refused to play a matronly role. Mayer implored her "to have the same faith in me" that he had in her. He read from the script, having her visualize the image she would present to the world, "a woman who survives and endures. She was London. No, more than that, she was ... England!" Garson accepted the role, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. Mrs. Miniver won six Academy Awards and became the top box office hit of 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill both loved the film, said historian Emily Yellin, and Roosevelt wanted prints rushed to theaters nationwide. The Voice of America radio network broadcast the minister's speech from the film, magazines reprinted it, and it was copied onto leaflets and dropped over German-occupied countries. Churchill sent Mayer a telegram claiming that "Mrs. Miniver is propaganda worth 100 battleships." Bosley Crowther (1960 biographer of Mayer, below), wrote in his New York Times review that Mrs. Miniver was the finest film yet made about the war, "and a most exalting tribute to the British."
I have the book and love the movie .I love alot of the old movies I taped from old movie station.I love watching Gene Kelly singing and dancing in the oldies.such talent besides acting they had to be able to dance and sing and so so much talent it just was amazing to watch them and all these oldies but Goodies thank you for sharing that it's one of my favorites I've taped it and want to take it from the old tape onto a CD so I can keep it for a long time cuz these track pictures aren't going to last forever and I have a recorder that can do that for me so anyway can't wait to see how well I do on CDs with these oldies thank you for sharing people don't know what they're missing if they haven't seen some of these
My father server in WWII. He was in the 8th Air Force there in England. He entered the war in 1941...many years before the end. He saw horrific things and never spoke of any of it. Ever. You are wrong. We did suffer. We did know of the suffering and the horrific tragedies and the sick sick evil that penetrated the earth! We lived it too.Only Heaven will clean up this mess. Only Heaven. Jesus Christ.
This is why in Hogarth prints the parishioners are prodded with a stick who dare sleep. The pulpit used to be the place where instructions from the sovereign are disseminated to the flock. In the Longest Day a Wehrmact Officer sits in a cathedral trying to discern instructions to the resistance.
Poor May Whitty. She was too old when she was discovered by Hollywood. Had she been 20 years younger, she would have conquered many nore. She died in 1948.
Don't you mean if a major "power" hadn't bombed Warsaw, Belgrade, Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, London, Coventry and Rotterdam...among other cities, there wouldn't have been a need for "total war?"
@@williamsnyder5616 Pretty sure that total-war was going to be a part of whatever the second world war would have been, regardless of if Germany was the primary antagonist. Just look at Japan in China and the Soviets during the Winter War and their other conquests before barbarossa.
This is a speech that we should learn from in light of threat we face from ISIS. These people have made us all soldiers for freedom of speech, belief and ideas. And we must fight them, "with all that is in us!"
They can't be destroyed, only defeated, and then only to a certain percentage. It is like saying we need to destroy "hate", as a thing. It can't be done. You can kill SOME, even MOST, but as long as there are people with minds that hate--and brother, that isn't ever going to change, you just can't destroy them--not all of em.
@Angryrnmedic yes i can recall. beacause all four of my grandparents were there and i have to take care of them. you have no idea what it is like what they had to go through. americans were came to war in the last year and suffered not nearly as many casualties. your grandparents did not have to walk home as prisonor from greece to austria losing the last bit of strentgh. or got shot down in africa. at least 50% voted for bush. so dont give me that shit bout you guys not liking war.
@homealone2nana When your mate jesus has finished cleaning up, do you think he could have word with his dad and try and find out who caused the mess in the first place?
@loron91423 why the hell do americans always have to make it patriotic. yes september 11th was tragic. but can't you americans just let go? you always act like you have it so hard.
One of the great movies of all time. If the ending of this film didn't make one want
to go out to fight in World War II or at least buy war bonds, then nothing would have. Considering when this film was made (Nov. 1941 to early 1942) those who would dismiss this movie solely as wartime propaganda has no sense of history or of quality moviemaking. My thanks to v1nc3ntw0ng for posting this video.
I remembered the song, I forgot about the rather good speech the vicar made!
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Unfortunately the person that posted this cut off most of the Land of Hope and Glory not that they played much and in credits In those days
Mayer wanted British actress Greer Garson, his personal discovery, to star, but she refused to play a matronly role. Mayer implored her "to have the same faith in me" that he had in her. He read from the script, having her visualize the image she would present to the world, "a woman who survives and endures. She was London. No, more than that, she was ... England!" Garson accepted the role, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. Mrs. Miniver won six Academy Awards and became the top box office hit of 1942.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill both loved the film, said historian Emily Yellin, and Roosevelt wanted prints rushed to theaters nationwide. The Voice of America radio network broadcast the minister's speech from the film, magazines reprinted it, and it was copied onto leaflets and dropped over German-occupied countries. Churchill sent Mayer a telegram claiming that "Mrs. Miniver is propaganda worth 100 battleships." Bosley Crowther (1960 biographer of Mayer, below), wrote in his New York Times review that Mrs. Miniver was the finest film yet made about the war, "and a most exalting tribute to the British."
BBC news online sent me here. Had an article about how Mrs. Miniver (and other movies) influenced America for the Allies.
What a movie should be! Thank you for posting this. They do NOT make them like they used to!
Sjms13 is this worth watching?
@@kiwiikiwiii3750 Great movie about how complacent we can be until our complacency abruptly ends in the face of impending doom!
I have the book and love the movie .I love alot of the old movies I taped from old movie station.I love watching Gene Kelly singing and dancing in the oldies.such talent besides acting they had to be able to dance and sing and so so much talent it just was amazing to watch them and all these oldies but Goodies thank you for sharing that it's one of my favorites I've taped it and want to take it from the old tape onto a CD so I can keep it for a long time cuz these track pictures aren't going to last forever and I have a recorder that can do that for me so anyway can't wait to see how well I do on CDs with these oldies thank you for sharing people don't know what they're missing if they haven't seen some of these
"Why? Because this is not only a war of soldiers, but of people,....every man woman and child who love freedom,...."
No! It was a banker's war! Like every war!
A great ending to a great movie.
My father server in WWII. He was in the 8th Air Force there in England. He entered the war in 1941...many years before the end. He saw horrific things and never spoke of any of it. Ever. You are wrong. We did suffer. We did know of the suffering and the horrific tragedies and the sick sick evil that penetrated the earth! We lived it too.Only Heaven will clean up this mess. Only Heaven. Jesus Christ.
This is why in Hogarth prints the parishioners are prodded with a stick who dare sleep. The pulpit used to be the place where instructions from the sovereign are disseminated to the flock.
In the Longest Day a Wehrmact Officer sits in a cathedral trying to discern instructions to the resistance.
Just watched this yesterday and that was the correct song
Poor May Whitty. She was too old when she was discovered by Hollywood. Had she been 20 years younger, she would have conquered many nore. She died in 1948.
I thought Dame May was great as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes.
She was magnificent. She also appeared in Gaslight (1944) and in many other rwdio plays and films.
Wilcoxon speech. Makes you think about a time when the major powers of the world made total war on each other!
Don't you mean if a major "power" hadn't bombed Warsaw, Belgrade, Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, London, Coventry and Rotterdam...among other cities, there wouldn't have been a need for "total war?"
@@williamsnyder5616 Pretty sure that total-war was going to be a part of whatever the second world war would have been, regardless of if Germany was the primary antagonist. Just look at Japan in China and the Soviets during the Winter War and their other conquests before barbarossa.
Betty Rubble at the end is a real empirical twist, and they think they have reasons. Luckily I've never considered German royalty divine....
This is a speech that we should learn from in light of threat we face from ISIS. These people have made us all soldiers for freedom of speech, belief and ideas. And we must fight them, "with all that is in us!"
***** You're probably right. Either way, ISIS are a problem and they need to be destroyed.
+degree7 Islamic fundamentalism first. Have a sense of proportion.
They can't be destroyed, only defeated, and then only to a certain percentage. It is like saying we need to destroy "hate", as a thing. It can't be done. You can kill SOME, even MOST, but as long as there are people with minds that hate--and brother, that isn't ever going to change, you just can't destroy them--not all of em.
America 2020
i have already won my friend. but that s ok if you feel left out. take care!
Putin's brutal war against Ukraine makes this scene more inspiring than ever.
@Angryrnmedic yes i can recall. beacause all four of my grandparents were there and i have to take care of them. you have no idea what it is like what they had to go through. americans were came to war in the last year and suffered not nearly as many casualties. your grandparents did not have to walk home as prisonor from greece to austria losing the last bit of strentgh. or got shot down in africa.
at least 50% voted for bush. so dont give me that shit bout you guys not liking war.
Up the Brita and Sir Winston Churchill.
@homealone2nana When your mate jesus has finished cleaning up, do you think he could have word with his dad and try and find out who caused the mess in the first place?
You cut off the last few bars of Hope Land of Hope and Glory? what's wrong with you?
I feel that this scene is happening in churches all over Ukraine.
It's naive to think that German people weren't watching exactly the same sort of patriotic propaganda during the second world war.
Enter Dr. Goebbels...
@loron91423 why the hell do americans always have to make it patriotic. yes september 11th was tragic. but can't you americans just let go? you always act like you have it so hard.
President Zelensky could have given that speech this past year.