Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein would help the new Allies, Britain and America, to understand each other. He read and advised on early drafts of "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), the film starring Greer Garson as the heroic mother of a wartorn British family, which MGM made after a meeting of MGM executives with Bernstein in Hollywood. As the invasion of France loomed, Bernstein brought his friend Alfred Hitchcock back from Hollywood to Britain to work on two short documentary films for the post-invasion French audience. As the war wound to its close, Bernstein heard the first reports of extermination camps, visited Belsen himself, and was determined
Salute John Citizen of the wartime "home front."...in its own quiet, unassuming war, "Salute John Citizen" paints a truer portrait of a proud populace besieged by war than the more celebrated "Mrs. Miniver" "; and "TV Guide" noted "a nice little film--a simple telling of a modest family's attempts to cope with ongoing conflict" while in his book "Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema", Andrew Spicer concluded that the films "popularity was limited by its obviously frugal budget, and uncharismatic central star." Salute John Citizen Salute John Citizen is a 1942 black and white British drama film directed by