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54% Critic Match
Yellow Canary
“Blonde and Beautiful...Despised and Hated!...”
5.4 / 10• 1943• 1h 34m•NR• English
DramaThrillerWar
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Anna Neagle
Sally Maitland
Lead
Richard Greene
Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick
Nova Pilbeam
Betty Maitland
Albert Lieven
Jan Orlock
Lucie Mannheim
Madame Orlock
GT
George Thorpe
Colonel Charles Hargraves
Marjorie Fielding
Lady Maitland
Franklin Dyall
Captain Foster
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Herbert Wilcox's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Yellow Canary is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
