Richard Attenborough's first film for some years is a melodramatic love story starring Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer set around wartime Belfast and present-day America. Canadian-born Jeff Danna's discreet score suggests the Irish location with Celtic brush strokes over the main titles and in the gentle mood music on strings that follows. The wartime period is intimated early on, by intention or default, with a phrase that kept bringing to mind the line “you're the one who made my dreams come true” from “I Remember You”, the Johnny Mercer/Victor Schertzinger hit. The Celtic touches abound throughout the film, typified in the cue “On Black Mountain” where Celtic harp with flute on top embroiders a melody in this gentle serenade. In “The Blitz”, the composer plays the drama right down to a five-note tap on the drum. A plot line facilitates an attractive cue, “Airmen”, orchestrated like the whole score by Nicholas Dodd, which captures the feeling of aerial flight with clarinet over gossamer accompaniment. The placid nature of the music threatens to give way to inertia towards the end when an incongruous pop song, “Lost Without Your Love”, appears out of the blue, no doubt pitched as an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.