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Forever and a Day

  • 19431943
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 44m
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7.0/10
671
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Brian Aherne, Charles Laughton, Ray Milland, Herbert Marshall, Robert Cummings, Ida Lupino, Anna Neagle, and Merle Oberon in Forever and a Day (1943)
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During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is resolutely... Read allDuring World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is resolutely against the sale. While they spend the night in an air-raid shelter she tells him the sto... Read allDuring World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is resolutely against the sale. While they spend the night in an air-raid shelter she tells him the story of the building from its construction in 1804 until the present.
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
671
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
42,317
2,819
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    • Directors
      • Edmund Goulding
      • Cedric Hardwicke
      • Frank Lloyd
    • Writers
      • Charles Bennett
      • Alan Campbell
      • Norman Corwin
    • Stars
      • George Kirby
      • Doreen Munroe
      • May Beatty
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • Edmund Goulding
      • Cedric Hardwicke
      • Frank Lloyd
    • Writers
      • Charles Bennett
      • Alan Campbell
      • Norman Corwin
    • Stars
      • George Kirby
      • Doreen Munroe
      • May Beatty
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    • 12User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    Buster Keaton, Charles Laughton, Ray Milland, Claude Rains, Elsa Lanchester, Ida Lupino, Victor McLaglen, and Merle Oberon in Forever and a Day (1943)
    June Duprez and Ida Lupino in Forever and a Day (1943)
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    Ray Milland and Anna Neagle in Forever and a Day (1943)
    Ray Milland and Anna Neagle in Forever and a Day (1943)
    Gladys Cooper and Merle Oberon in Forever and a Day (1943)
    Charles Laughton in Forever and a Day (1943)
    Cedric Hardwicke in Forever and a Day (1943)

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    George Kirby
    • Wartime Newspaper Vendor
    Doreen Munroe
    • Wartime Londoner
    • (as Doreen Monroe)
    May Beatty
    May Beatty
    • Wartime Londoner Cook
    Connie Leon
    • Wartime Londoner
    Joy Harington
    Joy Harington
    • Wartime Bus Conductor
    • (as Joy Harrington)
    Kent Smith
    Kent Smith
    • Gates Trimble Pomfret
    Ernest Grooney
    • Hotel Manager
    Reginald Gardiner
    Reginald Gardiner
    • Assistant Hotel Manager
    Victor McLaglen
    Victor McLaglen
    • Archibald Spavin
    Billy Bevan
    Billy Bevan
    • Wartime Cabby
    Arthur Treacher
    Arthur Treacher
    • Second Air Raid Watcher
    Harry Allen
    • First Cockney Air Raid Watcher
    Aubrey Mather
    Aubrey Mather
    • Man in Air Raid Shelter
    Ethel Griffies
    Ethel Griffies
    • Wife of Man in Air Raid Shelter
    June Lockhart
    June Lockhart
    • Girl in Air Raid Shelter
    Barbara Everest
    Barbara Everest
    • Girl's Mother in Air Raid Shelter
    Stuart Robertson
    • Air Raid Warden
    Ruth Warrick
    Ruth Warrick
    • Lesley Trimble
    • Directors
      • Edmund Goulding
      • Cedric Hardwicke
      • Frank Lloyd
    • Writers
      • Charles Bennett
      • Alan Campbell
      • Norman Corwin
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    • Trivia
      Alfred Hitchcock prepared the sequence involving Ida Lupino, and was to have directed it; scheduling prevented him, and it was directed by René Clair, who used Hitchcock's script.
    • Goofs
      In the first scene, which takes place on March 8, 1941, a newsboy announces that Germany has invaded Greece. However, the invasion did not begin until April 6, 1941.
    • Quotes

      Trimble Maid: Eeeeeh - isn't it all romantic? Just like a fairy tale.

      Trimble Maid: Yes. She's a nice little thing in her way and I really pity her having to go back to that old Barstow.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Turner & Hooch: Forever and a Dog (2021)
    • Soundtracks
      Down at the Old Bull and Bush
      (uncredited)

      Written by Andrew B. Sterling (as Andrew Sterling) and Harry von Tilzer

      Sung in the air raid shelter

    User reviews12

    Review
    Top review
    9/10
    The tragedy of a house and its residents for two centuries
    This is like a cavalcade travelling through history, commencing in Napoleonic times and ending in the Blitz. There are many poignant moments on the way, and the cast contains almost all the best names of the period. Among the most memorable ones are Charles Laughton as a drinking butler, Claude Rains as the only miserable tenant of the house ever, while the real moment of truth is in 1917 when the Americans enter the war. There is a very sensitive scene between Gladys Cooper and Merle Oberon that will stick on your mind for a long time, and Roland Young as the husband with Robert Coote as the blind veteran add to the impression of this scene. The second world war, which provides the beginning and end of the film, comes a little beside the point, since the main issue is the life that all the residents of the two families alternating in peopling the house, bestowed on the house and created a continuity, that not even the second world war could destroy. The message of the film is about continuity, how nothing can change what has been, which will go on forever even if only as memories, which provides quite some food for thought and afterthought. It's a very different film resembling almost none other, except in some ways Noel Coward's "Cavalcade" of 1931, which was something similar, ending in the first world war. This is in the same style and equally touching and profoundly human, which makes it a joy to behold and to remember.
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    • Release date
      • January 21, 1943 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Changing World
    • Filming locations
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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