Post-film discussion of The Americanization of Emily (2018) - Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton
Channel: The Julie Andrews Archive
Date: 28/10/2019

The American Values Film Series, presented by the Sag Harbor Cinema
Mar 04, 2018, 2:00 PM, Pierson High School, 200 Jermain Ave, Sag Harbor, NY

About the Event

There’s an anti-war film for every conflict America is engaged in, but none more significant than the anti-war movies created during the Vietnam era.  Both controversial and highly celebrated when it opened in 1964, this sharp, pacifist romantic comedy is loosely based on William Bradford Huie’s novel, with a script written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Arthur Hiller. Philip Lathrop’s beautifully composed black-and-white photography places the audience back in the 1944 London, during the build-up to D-Day, where Charlie Madison (James Garner), an American naval officer with a taste for the good life, sees his priorities challenged when he falls in love with a driver from the motor pool, Emily Barham (Julie Andrews).

According to Bosley Crowther, of the New York Times,  "The Americanization of Emily comes out a spinning comedy that says more for basic pacifism than a fistful of intellectual tracts. It also is highly entertaining, and it makes a good case for pure romance”.