Crossing to Freedom

• Director: Norman Stone
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• Genre: Drama
• Main Cast: Peter O'Toole, Mare Winningham
• Release Year: 1990
• Country: UK/US
• Run Time: 97 minutes

Plot

Crossing to Freedom is a 1990 TV-movie remake of the 1942 film The Pied Piper; both productions were based on a novel by Nevil Shute. Peter O'Toole steps into the old Monty Woolley role of the crotchety, isolationist Britisher who finds himself the unwilling guardian of several French war- refugee children. O'Toole leads his flock out of occupied France, making good his escape by striking up an unusual bargain with a Nazi officer. The predominantly British cast members choose to play their roles without French or German accents; not so American leading lady Mare Winningham, whose musical-comedy dialect is straight out of Fifi D'Orsay. Unlike the original Hollywood-bound Pied Piper, Crossing to Freedom was filmed on location in France. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Annette Badland; Michael Kitchen - Maj. Diessen; Claude LeSache; Peter O'Toole - John Sidney Howard; Olivier Pierre; Mare Winningham - Nicole Rougeron; Susan Wooldridge - Mrs. Cavanaugh; Ron Donachie; Alastair Haley; Juliette Mole - Mademoiselle Tenois

Credit

Norman Stone - Director, Carl Davis - Composer (Music Score), Ken Morgan - Cinematographer, Craig McNeil - Producer, Jerome Kass - Screenwriter