Yellow Canary

1943 PG-13 1h 34m

5.4 / 10 16

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5.4/10

YOUR RATING

In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.

Director Herbert Wilcox

Writers

Miles Malleson DeWitt Bodeen P.M. Bower

Stars

Anna Neagle Richard Greene Nova Pilbeam

Anna Neagle

Sally Maitland

Richard Greene

Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick

Colonel Charles Hargraves

Madame Orlock's Attendant

Cyril Fletcher

And Introducing Entertainer

Leslie Dwyer

Ship's Steward

Ian Fleming

Observe Corpsman in Opening Scene

David Horne

Admiral

Eliot Makeham

Observer Corpsman in Opening Scene

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Geronimo1967 26 Jun 2022

6/10

Anna Neagle ("Sally") is quite efficient as the supposed Nazi sympathiser who abandons her family in a frequently bombed London and heads to the safety of Nova Scotia. En route, she attracts the attention of both the suave Polish officer "Jan Orlock" (Albert Lieven) and of the apparently hapless British one - Richard Greene ("Garrick") on the boat. On arrival, she befriends the mother of "Orlock" ...