Their Finest Hour

This was their finest hour

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Bernie must time bursts of his engine to ride each approaching wave before it breaks as he pilots CG across the bar. Although he makes it over the bar, he loses his compass.

Bernie steers CG to the stricken tanker. Although his boat's designated capacity is only 12 people, Bernie manages to rescue 32 crewmen. The stern of Pendleton begins sinking more rapidly during the rescue and goes down shortly after the last crewman comes aboard Bernie's boat. Relying on his knowledge of the coast and prevailing winds in place of his compass, Bernie steers CG toward home—a task made more difficult as Chatham loses power.

Miriam and the other townspeople drive their cars to the pier and turn on their headlights to guide Bernie in. The film shows photographs from the event that briefly document the aftermath of the rescue. Two months later, Bernie and Miriam marry; they stay together for 58 years until Bernie's death in Webber and his crew receive the Gold Lifesaving Medal. Insurgent , and was replaced with Craig Gillespie in April Principal photography began on September 8, , in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures originally set The Finest Hours for release on April 15, and then October 9, , [30] until announcing a final release date of January 29, The Finest Hours received mixed to positive reviews from critics. The site's consensus states, "Old-fashioned to a fault, The Finest Hours will satisfy those seeking a traditional rescue drama — but may leave more adventurous viewers wanting more.

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All music composed by Carter Burwell , except as noted. Conducted by Carter Burwell. Performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. Portions of Carter Burwell's score were replaced with music composed by Philip Klein, who had served as arranger on Burwell's score.

Burwell chose to include two of Klein's tracks on the album. The album also includes five tracks that Burwell recorded, but which were replaced in the finished film.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Finest Hours Theatrical release poster. British Board of Film Classification. A stage hand approaches the couple and asks Catrin to come and answer a query from Hilliard about rewriting his character. Buckley goes to answer it instead of Catrin, but as he turns to look back at Catrin, he is suddenly killed by a falling lighting rig.

Several other actors are injured, one of these is Hilliard, who is visited in hospital by his agent Sophie. A love interest between these two also develops and she suggests he should come and stay with her to convalesce.

In the meantime, filming is delayed and a more US-audience-friendly ending is requested by the war ministry to replace the more restrained and subtle original British one. In addition the penultimate sequence of freeing the boat's propellor has still not yet been filmed. With Hilliard still recovering and Lundbeck now back with his squadron, there seems to be no actor left to play that role. The producers fear the movie will have to be scrapped, but Catrin successfully suggests that one of the twins, Rose, fix the boat's fouled propeller, instead of a male character.

She later learns that this scene has made the twin sisters Lily and Rose who inspired the story, to take up war work. After Buckley's death Catrin withdraws from the world of film in shock and grief, and she does not attend its premiere. A visit from Hilliard to her squalid digs convinces her to return.

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He is motivated in part to write him fulfilling future roles such as an idea he has for an ex cat burglar turned air-raid warden , having accepted that he can no longer play matinee idol parts. Catrin attends a public screening of "The Nancy Starling" and enjoys watching the visibly moved audience reactions. She sees that a distant shot of her and Buckley happily together has been added to the ending as a tribute. She heads back to the scriptwriters office, sits down at Buckley's old desk, and starts working on her next film using his old typewriter.

Principal photography on the film began in early September , in London [7] [8] and was partly shot in Pembrokeshire. In May , Lionsgate acquired UK distribution rights to the film.

In the British press, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the character of Hilliard "a colossally proportioned scene-stealer" and wrote that "Arterton brings a rather beautiful kind of restraint to her role". She praised that twist as the film's "boldest decision Geoffrey Macnab of the Independent wrote that "Some of the in-jokes begin to grate" but called Arterton's performance "well-judged and engaging" and noted the "scene-stealing antics" of Nighy, Lacy and Irons, particularly lauding Hilliard's shift from "comic buffoon He noted Scherfig's direction, with the "broad and rosy spoof" of the film-within-a-film and the gender inequalities of the period left "to squirm away unhindered in the subtext" rather than countered with anachronistic "spiky comebacks".

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Their Finest British theatrical release poster. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 25 October Looking for someone to add a woman's touch to scripts for propaganda films, the Ministry of Information spots Catrin Cole, a copywriter for Caradoc and Finch. They call her in. Catrin is a bit out of her depth in her new job, but she's keen - especially when the film division gets the green light for the "true story" of the Starling twins, Lily and Rose, who defied their father to bring 54 stranded soldiers back from Dunkirk in a purloined fishing boat.

Catrin goes to interview the pair, only to discover that what little truth there is in their story is not the sort the ministry would like told. Lissa Evans's cast of contrasting characters each have their own viewpoint. Evans's first two novels were jolly farces, and this could easily have been another, but the comedy is quieter, and deeply shadowed.

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