Hanover Street

Rating: 3

Hanover Street is a melodramatic score, an unashamedly old-fashioned romance aimed at lovers of slushy romantic fiction a la ‘Mills and Boon’. It’s a pretty score for piano and strings, melodic and accessible. A pleasant listen to be sure, with a memorable theme and a number of worthy sequences such as the dreamy music for the film’s dialogueless montage of Harrison Ford and Lesley Anne Down’s romance intercut with Ford’s bombing missions.

For all its niceness, however, the score is too light, much lighter than Somewhere In Time or Out Of Africa. Though romantic, the emotion lacks the depth of those scores. It particularly lacks a dramatic bite.