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The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) | User Rating
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Running Time
2 hours, 6 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM
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Other Titles
• The White Cliffs of Dover
• Weiße Klippen (1948)
• Die Weißen Klippen (1948)
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Genre: Romance, War, Drama, World War I, Tear Jerker, World War II, Military
Plot: This sentimental tale of one woman's unwavering courage in the face of two world wars was inspired by the poem of the same name by Alice Duer Miller. Filmed during WWII, THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER serves as a classic studio treatment of pro-British sentiment and America's own honorable part in the war. Irene Dunne stars as Susan Dunn Ashwood, an American who traveled to England in 1914 with her father as a young woman and met and fell in love with Sir John Ashwood (Alan Marshal), a wealthy British aristocrat. Susan's life in England is told in a series of nostalgic flashbacks as she looks back on her past trials and tribulations. Her passionate love for her new husband was cut short by the onset of WWI; despite his courage and bravery, he died on the battlefield, and Susan was left to bear and raise their young son alone. Young John Ashwood II (played as a child by Roddy McDowall and as a young man by Peter Lawford) is a courageous young descendant of his honorable father, and as the Second World War threatens, he begins his own tour of duty. Susan is a Red Cross employee who must service young wounded soldiers and is soon devastated to find her own son among those hurt in battle, leading to a heartbreaking scene of loss and patriotism. This wartime tale of terrific hardship and
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| Jan Lustig
Moonfleet, Young Bess, That Forsyte Woman |
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| Cast |
Irene Dunne
The Awful Truth, My Favorite Wife, Life with Father |
 | Alan Marshal
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, House on Haunted Hill, After the Thin Man | Roddy McDowall
A Bug's Life, Planet of the Apes, The Poseidon Adventure | Frank Morgan
The Wizard of Oz, The Shop Around the Corner, The Three Musketeers | Van Johnson
The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | | | |
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