‘Yanks’ returns for a second screening

Press, 15 July 1982, Page 14

‘Yanks’ returns for a second screening

For those who missed "Yanks’” at last year’s screening at the Academy, this charming, wartime romance is back in town at the Midcity. This is one of those odd films which never received the attention it deserved, and was a long time in coming to Christchurch. Stretching similes only a little, “Yanks" is .one of those good-news movies,. like “Chariots ' of Fire,” which

arrives unheralded and only becomes box-office success if given half a chance. Written by the English scenarist, Colin Welland, “Yanks” did receive some acclaim on its first release overseas in 1979. The film's title confused cinema patrons on its original release and the attendance was poor but now, with renewed interest in its author, who wrote the Academy Award-winning script

for “Chariots of Fire." the film is being rereleased world-wide. "Yanks" is a study of American G.l.s in a country village in the north of England during the Second World War. It is not a war movie in the conventional sense but a stirring and memorable canvas of two friendly but dissimilar cultures searching for uplifting values in a time of duress: