I found the film to be touching in parts and pretty accurate in what I have read about the happenings and going-ons in wartime England circa 1943-4. This film was, I believe, what sparked a very popular British TV series called 'We'll Meet Again'. It is very evident in the similarities - the lady of the manor falling in love with the Captain, the GIs falling for the girls. The gruff parent - in the movie's case it was the mother and in the TV series it was the father (he was a lot harsher than the mother in this movie).

I loved one of the dance hall scenes where a huge fight breaks out between different sets of GIs. The British women, after the fight, were wonderful.

I was left wondering, at the end of the movie, whether the main characters survived the final push. Richard Gere was pretty yummy back in the day too :o)

Was sad to see the passing of Tony Melody this summer. He was such a good yet under sung character actor. His performance in Yanks was excellent and the mischievous smile he cracked when he said there would be 'no danger' of the bottle of whisky remaining unopened was brilliant as oppose to his wife's refusal to eat the cake that Geres character had prepared.

I wonder if the picture of his character he showed Gere when he was talking about his war service was actually his real father as he had served in the Guards during the first world war - just a thought.

Lisa Eichorn had me fooled for many a year - that Lancashire accent is spot on.

Just watched this film again for at least the tenth time since it's release and never fail to be impressed by the accuracy of its portrayal of Northern England. In fact this is the England I remember growing up in in the 1960s and it really only started to change around the 1970s when we finally seemed to recover from post war austerity. Shops looked like that when I was a kid in suburbs of Newcastle. Several people mention the power station mistakenly suggesting it was out of place as it was nuclear. Most power stations in the UK are coal powered and still look exactly like this and as the film was made in and around Stalybridge and the pennine towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire it may well have been Stalybridge which was built in 1926 and definitely never a nuclear plant. Lovely film and exactly as wartime was described in countless family discussions with our mams and dads. This was often the only adventure in their lives so it came up over and over again.