The White Cliffs of Dover
1944

The Essentials
WHO: WHAT:
John Ashwood II (as boy) Sweeping WWI romance. Leonard calls it "slick but shallow".
WHY:
Our hero's part is very small... enjoyment depends upon viewer's sensitivity to sentiment...

Technical Details

Roddy McDowall in The White Cliffs of Dover Director: Clarence Brown

Writer: Claudine West, Jan Lustig, George Froeschel, based on poem by Alice Duer Miller

Production: MGM

Cast: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford, John Warburton, Jill Esmond, Brenda Forbes, Norma Varden, Elizabeth Taylor

Running time: 126 m.


OVERALL
RATING:
McDOWALLISM:
6
of 10
5
of 10

Other Options:
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