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This Above All

Movie·1942·Drama, Romance, War·1h 50m·Directed by Anatole Litvak

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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 PowerTyrone PowerClive BriggsJoan FontaineJoan FontainePrudence CathawayThomas MitchellThomas Mitchell"Monty" MontagueHenry StephensonHenry StephensonGeneral CathawayNigel BruceNigel BruceRamsbottomGladys CooperGladys CooperIris CathawayPhilip MerivalePhilip MerivaleDr. Roger CathawaySara AllgoodSara AllgoodWaitress

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