

This Above All(1942)
"He's lost his belief in everything but love."
Overview
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.
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Tyrone Power
Clive Briggs

Joan Fontaine
Prudence Cathaway

Thomas Mitchell
"Monty" Montague

Henry Stephenson
General Cathaway

Nigel Bruce
Ramsbottom

Gladys Cooper
Iris Cathaway

Philip Merivale
Dr. Roger Cathaway

Sara Allgood
Waitress

Alexander Knox
Rector

Queenie Leonard
Violet Worthing

Melville Cooper
Wilbur

Jill Esmond
Nurse Emily Harvey

Holmes Herbert
Dr. Mathias

John Abbott
Joe

Arthur Shields
Hospital Chaplain

Dennis Hoey
Parsons

Denis Greene
Dr. Ferris

Miles Mander
Major
Harry Allen
Hubert

David Clyde
Clerk

Brenda Forbes
Mae
Lilyan Irene
Rosie

Colin Campbell
Frantic Air Raid Victim

Billy Bevan
Farmer
Herbert Clifton
Secretary

Andy Clyde
Fireman
Carol Curtis-Brown
Cathaway's Maid

Raymond Severn
Jackie Harvey
Charles Irwin
Regimental Commander
Virginia McDowall
Girl with Iris

Clyde Cook
Truck Driver
Jessica Newcombe
Matron
Alexander Pollard
Waiter
Stuart Robertson
Officer
John Rogers
Vagrant at Flop House
Clifford Severn
Lift Boy

Will Stanton
Bartender

Donald Stuart
Messenger
Cyril Thornton
Station Master
David Thursby
Man Assigned Bed #10
Gordon Wallace
Airman

Rhys Williams
Sergeant
Alan Edmiston
Hotel Porter

Gerald Hamer
Hotel Porter
Mary Field
Hotel Maid
Gwendolyn Logan
Hotel Maid

Alec Craig
Bus Conductor
Harold De Becker
Train Conductor

Morton Lowry
Soldier in Bar

Eddie Hall
Soldier in Bar
Jack Shea
British Soldier in Bar
Thomas Louden
Vicar

Mary Forbes
Vicar's Wife

Wyndham Standing
Doctor
Mrs. Wilfrid North
Doctor's Wife

Leyland Hodgson
Policeman
Val Stanton
Policeman

Leonard Carey
Policeman with Rector

Lumsden Hare
First Headwaiter

Aubrey Mather
Second Headwaiter

Yorke Sherwood
Proprietor

Olaf Hytten
Proprietor

Forrester Harvey
Proprietor
Silvia Vaughan
Tea Shop Counterwoman

May Beatty
Tea Shop Customer

Anita Sharp-Bolster
Tea Shop Customer

Heather Thatcher
Nurse
Cecil Weston
Nurse
Stella Rae
Nurse
Jean Prescott
Nurse

Colin Kenny
WAAF Supply Officer
Clare Verdera
WAAF Corporal

Rita Page
WAAF Corporal

Doris Lloyd
WAAF Sergeant
Valerie Cole
WAAF Woman
Stephanie Insall
WAAF Woman
Dorothy Daniels de Becker
WAAF Woman
Joyce Wynn
WAAF Woman
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