When he woke up he remembered bits and pieces of things he'd seen but his judgment had fled."Hanover Street," which opens today at the Loew's State 2 and Tower East Theaters, starts being funny with the opening credits, which are set against a vista of fleecy white clouds and a soundtrack full of John Barry's music so heavenly we suspect we might be dead. Hyams had studied every popular romantic drama, from "A Farewell to Arms" to "Love Affair" and "Love Story," and then, when he left the screening room, had been hit on the head with a brick.
The clichés were everywhere, but always just slightly out of place and inappropriate.This pretty much describes the unfortunate method of "Hanover Street," which looks as if Mr.
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What Peter Hyams has achieved with "Hanover Street," his new film about a wartime romance set in the London of 1943, is a movie that is almost as funny as Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" which, if you remember, was a straight-faced Japanese spy picture that Woody took over and dubbed with a hilariously knuckle-brained English-language soundtrack. EVERY now and then a film comes along of such painstaking, overripe foolishness that it breaks through the garbage barrier to become one of those rare movies you rush to see for laughs.
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