Forever and a Day (1943)

7.5/10 104 min Drama History

Overview

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, 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.

Cast

Kent Smith

Gates Trimble Pomfret

Reginald Gardiner

Assistant Hotel Manager

Victor McLaglen

Archibald Spavin

Billy Bevan

Wartime Cabby

Arthur Treacher

Second Air Raid Watcher

Ruth Warrick

Lesley Trimble

C. Aubrey Smith

Eustace Trimble

Edmund Gwenn

Stubbs

Ray Milland

Bill Trimble

May Whitty

Lucy Trimble

Gene Lockhart

Cobblewick

Anna Neagle

Susan Trenchard

Claude Rains

Ambrose Pomfret

Jessie Matthews

Mildred Trimble

Reginald Owen

Simpson

Ian Hunter

Dexter Pomfret

Charles Laughton

Bellamy

Cedric Hardwicke

Mr. Dabb

Anna Lee

Cornelia Trimble-Pomfret

Patric Knowles

Trimble-Pomfret Son

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