This Above All

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.

Cast

Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power

as Clive Briggs

Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine

as Prudence Cathaway

Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell

as "Monty" Montague

Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson

as General Cathaway

Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

as Ramsbottom

Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper

as Iris Cathaway

Philip Merivale

Philip Merivale

as Dr. Roger Cathaway

Sara Allgood

Sara Allgood

as Waitress

Alexander Knox

Alexander Knox

as Rector

Queenie Leonard

Queenie Leonard

as Violet Worthing

Reviews

CinemaSerf

A really strong ensemble cast get together for this wartime drama that sees the posh "Prudence" (Joan Fontaine) sign up to join the Women's Auxiliary Army Force - much to the chagrin of her old-soldier father Henry Stephenson. Not long into her new career, her pals set her up on a date with the hand...

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