- The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film)
Infobox Film
name = The White Cliffs of Dover
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director =Clarence Brown
producer = Clarence BrownSidney Franklin
writer =Claudine West Jan Lustig George Froeschel
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starring =Irene Dunne
Alan Marshal
music =Herbert Stothart
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distributor =Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = 1944
runtime = 126 min.
country =U.S.A.
language = English / French / German
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amg_id = 1:54290
imdb_id = 0037462"The White Cliffs of Dover" is a 1944 film made by
Loew's andMGM . It was directed byClarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin. The screenplay was byClaudine West ,Jan Lustig andGeorge Froeschel , based on theAlice Duer Miller poem entitled "The White Cliffs" with additional poetry byRobert Nathan .Plot Summary
It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to
England and falls in love with an English aristocrat. The girl marries the Englishman but their honeymoon is cut short on its first day asWorld War I breaks out. The husband goes to war inFrance , sees his bride only once more and then is killed in action near the end of the war. In the meantime the wife has his son, that she raises along with the father's mother. A scene in the movie approximating the early 30s shows adolescent German boys, part of an exchange program, visitng the English family's country estate. Insinuating they were part of earlyNazi invasion plans, the movie has the boys let it slip in conversation that they are contemplating how the estate's large lawns would be ideal for troop gliders to land on.Starring
Irene Dunne , Alan Marshal,Roddy McDowall ,Frank Morgan ,Van Johnson ,C. Aubrey Smith ,Gladys Cooper ,Peter Lawford ,Dame May Whitty ,Elizabeth Taylor andNorma Varden , the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography in Black and White.External links
*imdb title|id=0037462|title=The White Cliffs of Dover
*amg title|id=1:54290|title=The White Cliffs of Dover
*tcmdb title|id=499|title=The White Cliffs of Dover
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