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The White Cliffs of Dover (Warner Archive) (1944)
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| Starring: | Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford, John Warburton, Jill Esmond, Brenda Forbes, Norma Varden |
| Director: | Clarence Brown |
| Genre: | Drama, Military/War, Romance, War Drama, World War II |
| Year: | 1944 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 126 minutes |
| Released: | January 19, 2010 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS:Susan Ashwood (Irene Dunne) lost her husband to one war. Will she lose her son to another? Radiating elegance and warmth, Dunne gives “one of her finest performances” (The Movie Guide) in this heartfelt romantic drama as an American who becomes the bride of a handsome British aristocrat (Alan Marshal), only to see him march off to the Great War and never return.
Years later, England plunges into World War II…and the past threatens to repeat itself when Susan’s son (Peter Lawford) enlists to fight the Nazis. A Who’s Who of ’40s stars from Van Johnson to Elizabeth Taylor (just before her breakthrough role in National Velvet) lend sterling support to an inspiring story of one woman braving the tragedy of war.
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There are 1 reviews for this movie |
  | Jeff | | SPOILER ALERT! Irene Dunne was a bit betwixt and between--not as madcap as Carole Lombard nor as staunch and upright as Greer Garson. She carried a brittle edge not unlike Kate Hepburn and had a voice like Kathryn Grayson. But you could cast her without wondering if she could combine upright and zany in one package, as she did effectively in "Theodora Goes Wild" and "Together Again." Here all she gets to be is Stalwart. Some have said Garson should have done it but all Greer would be doing is reprising Mrs. Miniver, and Dunne makes a more convincing small-town Yank. One of the weepiest and most patriotic of the patriotic weepers released during WWII, which would've been better if they'd decided on one or the other without trying to force-weld them together. As it is, the uber-patriotism destroys the pathos of the ending, where Dunne waxes rhapsodic about the arriving American forces and the wonderfulness of the U.S. and totally ignores her son, who dies as she recites. One interesting detail: the 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor grows into the 18-year-old June Lockhart and Roddy McDowell turns into Peter Lawford. Quite a trick. |
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