The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

Infobox Film | name = The Captive Heart


caption =VHS cover for "The Captive Heart"
director = Basil Dearden
producer = Michael Balcon
writer = Patrick Kirwan
Angus MacPhail
Guy Morgan
starring =Michael Redgrave
Rachel Kempson
music = Alan Rawsthorne
cinematography = Douglas Slocombe
editing = Charles Hasse
distributor = Associated British Film Distributors Ltd.
released = April 29, 1946 (UK release)
runtime = 104 min
country = UK
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0038396

"The Captive Heart" is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden for Ealing Studios.

Plot

Set in a German POW camp after the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II, the plot centers on one of the prisoners. Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave), a Czech soldier who has escaped from a concentration camp and assumed the identity of a dead British prisoner, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell.

Initially keeping to his false identity, he is soon unmasked by his fellow soldiers, suspicious of his command of the German language, but for safety, the SBO commands them to maintain the fiction. To avoid being detected, he corresponds with Mitchell's wife Celia (Rachel Kempson). Prior to the war, the Mitchells had a cool relationship, but the letters rekindle Celia's love.

When a Gestapo officer visits the camp, he thinks he recognises Hasek and the latter realises it is only a matter of time before he is unmasked. A plan is hatched to place Hasek's name on a list of soldiers already approved for repatriation.

After Hasek "returns" to England, he meets Celia and breaks the news of her husband's death. She realises that she has come to love Hasek and they decide to stay together.

The film cast includes many fine character actors and many of the camp population were serving soldiers.

One of the locations used was the ex-naval POW camp Marlag, near Westertimke, which had remained largely intact since the end of the war the previous year.

Cast

*Michael Redgrave — Capt. Karel Hasek, alias Geoffrey Mitchell
*Rachel Kempson — Celia Mitchell
*Frederick Leister — Mr. Mowbray
*Mervyn Johns — Pvt. Don Evans
*Rachel Thomas — Di Evans
*Jack Warner — Cpl. Ted Horsfall
*Gladys Henson — Flo Horsfall
*James Harcourt — Doctor
*Gordon Jackson — Lt. David Lennox
*Elliott Mason — Mrs. Lennox
*Margot Fitzsimons — Elspeth McDougall
*David Keir — Mr. McDougall
*Derek Bond — Lt. Stephen Harley
*Jane Barrett — Caroline Harley
*Meriel Forbes — Beryl Curtiss
*Jimmy Hanley — Pvt. Mathews

External links

*imdb title|id=0038396|title=The Captive Heart


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