Quite why they made this remake I cannot fathom, let alone why it was set in wartime. The heroine's clothes, hair and make up were 10 years ahead of time, and some extras in a bizarre 'air raid shelter' (or 'thin sheet of painted corrugated iron' by a 1970s wall, to be exact) scene seemed to have been dressed by a 1990s jumble sale, with hair in a style no 40s woman would have been seen dead in, war or no war. Decor was courtesy of the 1980s - polyester peach-coloured ruffles included.
The story could have held promise, but the acting, settings, decor, costumes etc made me wonder if setting it in the present may have been wiser if their increased (?) budget didn't make it possible to achieve any kind of temporal accuracy. I even heard a radio announcer referring, in a non RP voice, to June 6 - US date format never used then - on a portable radio standing on a mangle! It may have given a sense of what was happening, but radios were very heavy and large, NEVER portable.
Suffice to say that the huge inaccuracies simply spoilt the film for me. It was like watching an amateur production. Sadly disappointing.
The story could have held promise, but the acting, settings, decor, costumes etc made me wonder if setting it in the present may have been wiser if their increased (?) budget didn't make it possible to achieve any kind of temporal accuracy. I even heard a radio announcer referring, in a non RP voice, to June 6 - US date format never used then - on a portable radio standing on a mangle! It may have given a sense of what was happening, but radios were very heavy and large, NEVER portable.
Suffice to say that the huge inaccuracies simply spoilt the film for me. It was like watching an amateur production. Sadly disappointing.