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Movie Review: 'Hanover Street' should have been called 'Hangover Street'

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"Hanover Street" (1979) Written and directed by Peter Hyams Starring: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Richard Masur, Patsy Kensit, John Ratzenberger David Halloran: You people actually drink this stuff? Margaret Sellinger: No we just like to put it in our cups and stare at it. David Halloran: Tastes too much like, boiled water. Margaret Sellinger: It is boiled water. David Halloran: I knew there was a reason. During World War II, London was the nerve center of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany. From 1939 to 1945, tens of thousands of service personnel from many nations, including the United States, flooded into Great Britain's capital to plan and execute a myriad of military operations to liberate Europe from Hitler's tyranny. Inevitably, the war fostered a "live and love for today, for tomorrow we may die" attitude among the men and women in Britain. This led to a surge of sudden and passionate roman