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Hanover Street, director Peter Hyams’s World War II-set romantic war film starring Ford as an American bomber pilot who falls for a married British nurse before being assigned a dangerous mission with her husband, joined Tubi’s free streaming lineup on April 1st, marking a return to streaming after a period of unavailability. Ford has largely disowned the film in the decades since its 1979 release, later stating in an interview, per Far Out Magazine, that Hanover Street “was a terrible experience” and he “hated making that film from start to finish.” Ford added that “they wanted me to promote it, but they wouldn’t show it to me, and I’d never pay to see it.”
Harrison Ford Took the Role in Hanover Street for One Very Particular Reason
Ford was vocal about his dislike for Hanover Street, but he had a pretty solid reason for signing onto the project. Despite stating that “he hated making that film from start to finish,” he felt compelled to do the project out of a desire to play a romantic lead, a type of role he had not been offered after his early success in American Graffiti and Star Wars. Ford later confirmed that his main “motivation for doing Hanover Street was because I had never kissed a female human being on the screen before,” as “the characters I played were totally sexless, and here was a movie that was being touted as a romance. That was a clear, obvious reason for doing it.”
