92 GROSVENOR STREET

US/UK, 1985, 100 minutes, Colour.
Ray Sharkey, Hal Holbrook, David McCallum?, Anne Twomey.
Directed by Sheldon Larry.

92 Grosvenor Street is an entertaining World War Two telemovie, a British-American? co-production. It focuses on military intelligence, on the OSS and its activity in Europe. The film focuses on difficulties in Norway, an atomic scientist being used by the Nazis with the possibility of their gaining access to his research and building nuclear bombs. The Norwegian material is familiar from many of the war films from Edge of Darkness to The Heroes of Telemark. The film has a strong cast and an atmosphere of Britain (luring the war. As a film of the '80s, it reflects on the meaninglessness of war.

1. Interesting an entertaining war telemovie? Action, espionage? A film of the 80s?

2. The characters, treatment? The atmosphere of London, of Norway? The telemovie style?

3. The focus on the Forces, the Americans and the establishment of the OSS? British authorities and the clash with Americans? international co-operation? War strategies? Decisions about life and death?

4. The opening, the situation? The professor, his research? The Nazis' hold over him? The infiltration into his workplace? The British agents and the American agents and their cover? The plant, the rescue? Discovery? The personalities of the commandos? Danger, contacts? Orders to kill the professor? The final rescue? The capture of the commandos?

5. The American General and the OSS? His work, his competence? His relationship with Shelley Flynn? Decisions about life and death? Michael and his work? planes across the Atlantic, his decision to go to war, his being missing in action? His grief? Nightmare and his son being killed and himself thrown over the balcony? Espionage, the Norwegian situation, his recruiting the professor's daughter, the French spy? His final stances on war and its meaning?

6 Shelley Flynn and the British, plans, dialogue with the Americans, orders to kill?

7. The professor and the Nazis, his atomic research, scientific freedom, his being used? His daughter in England (and the men coming to her flat)? The attack in the laboratory, the team, coming to rescue his daughter and the agent dressed as nuns? His suicide?

8. Philip and Elizabeth, their family, in love, her being a spy, his seeing her going through his material, the report, leading her on, the confrontation and her being shot?

9. Americans and British in war, lonely, meeting in England, falling in love?

10. The professor's daughter and her family, receiving men? Her going to Norway? As a nun? The action sequences? The final rescue? The Resistance agent, her killing the officer, being recruited? Her guilt about her father?

11. British authorities? Decisions? The contrast with the The history of World War Two and the reassessment?