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This Above All is a american film of genre Drama directed by Anatole Litvak released in USA on 12 may 1942 with Tyrone Power
This Above All (1942)
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Add to a movie listThis Above All is a 1942 American romance film set in World War II adapted from the Eric Knight novel of the same name, 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.
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Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave.Actors
Tyrone Power
(Clive Briggs)
Joan Fontaine
(Prudence Cathaway)
Thomas Mitchell
("Monty" Montague)
Henry Stephenson
(General Cathaway)
Nigel Bruce
(Ramsbottom)
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