Forever and a Day (1943 film)
Appearance
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Directed by | multiple director[2] |
Written by | multiple writers[3] |
Produced by | multiple producers[4] |
Starring | Kent Smith Ruth Warrick |
Cinematography | Robert De Grasse Lee Garmes Russell Metty Nicholas Musuraca |
Edited by | George Crone Elmo Williams |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Forever and a Day is a 1943 drama film, a collaborative effort employing seven directors/producers and 22 writers, including an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock, with an enormous cast of well-known stars.
Plot
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret (Kent Smith) is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick), tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Partial cast
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Notes
- ^ "Forever and a Day: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ^ Directors: René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson and Herbert Wilcox.
- ^ Writers: Charles Bennett, Alan Campbell, Norman Corwin, C. S. Forester, Peter Godfrey, Jack Hartfield, Lawrence Hazard, S. M. Herzig, James Hilton, Michael Hogan, Christopher Isherwood, Emmet Lavery, W. P. Lipscomb, Gene Lockhart, Frederick Lonsdale, Alice Duer Miller, R. C. Sherriff, Donald Ogden Stewart, John Van Druten, Claudine West, Keith Winter and Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited).
- ^ Producers: René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson and Herbert Wilcox.
External links
- Forever and a Day at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Forever and a Day at IMDb
- Forever and a Day at the TCM Movie Database
- Review in the New York Times by Bosley Crowther (May 13, 1943)
Categories:
- 1943 films
- American films
- English-language films
- Battle of Britain films
- American black-and-white films
- RKO Pictures films
- Films directed by Cedric Hardwicke
- Films directed by Frank Lloyd
- Films directed by Edmund Goulding
- Films directed by Victor Saville
- Films directed by René Clair
- Films directed by Herbert Wilcox
- Films directed by Robert Stevenson
- 1940s drama films
- Screenplays by Donald Ogden Stewart
- Collaborative projects