The first act of This above All is great. It's a class conscious story about a very rich woman who joins up with the Women's Air Force unit in Britain and pays no attention to her class. The second act of this is even better. It's a love story in which Joan Fontaine (who is luminous and charming) falls in love with the most handsome stranger she could possibly meet. He's super mysterious and secretive and the whole thing is sexy and intriguing and fun. And then act three happens and we're in full blown WWII propaganda mode. It's all faith and truth and fighting for what you believe in and marriage and god and England and well... whatever. Let's just say it lost steam. Still, the effects are great, the production design is excellent, and the bombing of London sequence is stellar. Tyrone Power is gorgeous (obviously) but speaks in a US American accent the entire time and literally never bothers to try to pass as a Briton. Meanwhile Joan Fontaine might as well be in a George Eliot novel.
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