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    Aug 12, 2021 6 minutes

    SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

    A ripping yarn made in the spirit of Hitchcock’s thrillers

    Certificate: 12 Director: Andy Goddard Cast: Eddie Izzard, Judi Dench, Carla Juri, Jim Broadbent Released: Out now

    Andy Goddard’s Six Minutes To Midnight (2020) harks back to British classics of yesteryear, such as The 39 Steps (1935) and Went The Day Well? (1942). It wears these influences unabashedly on its sleeve, while sadly never hitting the same glorious heights or mighty strides as either picture made by Alfred Hitchcock or Brazilian journeyman Alberto Cavalcanti, whose Wehrmacht invasion saga, based on a story by author Graham Greene, is one of the best war films ever made.

    In a pre-credits sequence, a frightened-looking gentleman (played by Nigel Lindsay) is stalked by a person unknown in the dead of night on an English seaside pier. It isn’t too long before the poor chap ends up as fish food. We learn quickly enough that he was a schoolteacher at the Augusta Victoria College, a boarding school for the daughters of Nazi Germany’s top brass,

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