This Above All

This Above All (1942)

He's lost his belief in everything but love.

In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.

Date of release
1942-05-12
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Director
Anatole Litvak

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: This Above All
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 4. Including: Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White

This Above All is a 1942 American romance film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine as a couple from different social classes who fall in love in wartime England. The supporting cast features Thomas Mitchell, Nigel Bruce, and Gladys Cooper. Set in World War II, the film is adapted from Eric Knight's 1941 novel of the same name.

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