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75% Critic Match
Forever and a Day
“The Picture With a $1,000,000 Cast”
7.5 / 10• 1943• 1h 44m•NR• English
DramaHistory
Storyline
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 & Crew
Kent Smith
Gates Trimble Pomfret
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. René Clair's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Forever and a Day is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
