Alicia I love this movie so much

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Leofwine_draca YELLOW CANARY is a standard WW2 espionage film that paints the Nazis in the blackest of colours, as you'd expect from a movie made contemporaneous with the war itself. The usual propaganda elements of the genre are present and correct, and the tale as told is simple too, although rather simplistic for its type. There's not really too much depth to the story which means that it does feel like this drags in places.The film's protagonist is none other than Anna Neagle, once one of our country's most popular starlets, although she's long forgotten today. Her German background sees her driven out of Britain as a Nazi sympathiser, so she decides to start a new life in Nova Scotia. On board the ship she hooks up with two male passengers, one a rich aristocrat from Poland and the other a stiff-upper-lip British officer played by the reliable Richard Greene.The rest of the tale plays out as expected with hidden identities, shifts of allegiance, and a mystery angle as the viewer has to work out if any of the leads are hidden Nazi sympathisers or not. There's some peril here towards the climax which is reasonably done and the acting is solid enough for the genre. It's just a film that I found a little plodding at times.

blanche-2 Anna Neagle stars with Richard Greene, Albert Lieven, Nova Pilbeam, and Margaret Rutherford in the British film "The Yellow Canary" from 1943,Anna Neagle is Sally Maitland, a woman from a good family, estranged from them, who is a known Nazi sympathizer. She is forced to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia. On the ship, she meets a Polish aristocrat, Jan Orloch (Albert Lieven) and is also chased around by a British naval intelligence officer, Jimmy Garrick (Richard Greene). Once on dry land, she agrees to meet Jan's mother (Lucie Mannheim) who was blinded when the Nazis bombed their home.Garrick, meanwhile, is supposed to watch her every move. Enjoyable spy movie, with Neagle, the hugely popular British star, in fine form as a glamorous and somewhat snobby woman in this film, which has many twists and turns.Handsome Richard Greene was signed by 20th Century Fox, but went back to England during the war and served in the Royal Armoured Corps of the Twenty-Seventh Lancers, rising to Captain. His career never got off the ground again, but he is best known by us old-timers in the states for being Robin Hood in the British TV series, which made him filthy rich and well known. After that, he became a country gentleman, raising thoroughbreds. Here he is pleasant and earnest.Nova Pilbeam, who worked with Hitchcock, plays Neagle's mother in a small role.The smallest role is Margaret Rutherford, who is a riot and a real scene-stealer.If you see this is going to be on TCM, try and catch it.

reve-2 This film is pretty typical of the WW II spy genre. Performances are okay but nothing special. Most of the story takes place in Canada, where the RCMP are responsible for catching enemy agents. The entire scenario is very easy to figure out so there are no real surprises as the various characters show their true loyalties. The ending is neatly wrapped up in a satisfying manner.

Penfold-13 British, made in 1943, which tells you the ideological basis of the film.It's a well-worked story of deception and counter-deception, mostly set in Halifax, NS. Evil Nazi agents and heroic British agents, with Richard Greene looking handsomer than ever in the van, mount operations against each other. Anna Neagle plays a double agent, which means she has to act acting, a test of ability which she carries off very well.Margaret Rutherford has a stormer of a cameo role, shamelessly stealing every scene she's in. Her line "Wouldn't it be nice to do something violent?" is a classic.Well above average example of routine genre.