Tyrone Power
Clive Briggs
Search results
This Above All is a 1942 American romance film 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 .
- $2.4 million (US rentals)
- Darryl F. Zanuck
This Above All: Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson. Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.
- (1.3K)
- Drama, Romance, War
- Anatole Litvak
- 1942-05-12
Synopsis. 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 ...
- Eric Knight
- 1941
- 1941
- Cassell
Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member The film version of This Above all is a lovely romance that takes place during World War II in England. Clive Briggs ...
- (7)
- Anatole Litvak
- War
- Tyrone Power
This Above All was the first film to be shown in the newly constructed theater, and the event reportedly drew many celebrities, including Laurel and Hardy, Jackie Cooper and Joe E. Brown. In the summer of 1942, Lux Radio Theatre aired a radio adaptation of the story, starring Tyrone Power, reprising his film role, and Barbara Stanwyck.
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 ...
