This Above All (1942)
Directed by Anatole Litvak · 110 min · Drama, Romance, War
21.0 TOPICAL score · #4,413 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
This Above All (1942, directed by Anatole Litvak) has a TOPICAL score of 21.0 - ranked 4,413 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and cast, and lowest on lasting engagement. It won 1 award from 4 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White. Audiences: TMDB 6.8/10 (20 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 13 languages.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 6.8/10 (20 ratings)
- Awards1 win, 4 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 13 languages
- Still read1,278 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Tyrone Power (actor #1,374), Joan Fontaine (actor #338), Thomas Mitchell (actor #222), Henry Stephenson (actor #1,763)