Alicia I love this movie so much

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

edwagreen It appeared that there was never-ending dialogue between the two major characters in the film- Joan Fontaine and Tyrone Power.Fontaine comes from an aristocratic family; although, her father, Philip Merivale is not at all a snob. Gladys Cooper is at it again; younger than she looked in her great performance that year in "Now, Voyager, but as snobbish as the come. She believes in equality providing that it doesn't affect her. Had her part been more developed, she would have really been something, but she appears in two scenes, and one is just a walk-by.Ditto for Sara Allgood. A year after her brilliant performance in "How Green Was My Valley," she is reduced here to a one- scene stand as a waitress. Yes, a waitress!Fontaine defies her family and joins the WACS only to find romance with Power. About an hour into the film, we learn that he is a deserter. He goes through the fact that despite Dunkirk, are we in England fighting this war to maintain the upper classes. He is searching for something, perhaps the same thing that he longed for 4 years later in "The Razor's Edge."Alexander Knox, so brilliant in 1944's "Wilson," plays a parson that Power encounters while on the lam. It is spiritual guidance along with the prodding of the Fontaine character that seems to set Power straight, only for him to be hurt aiding others in an air-raid bombing of London.

vincentlynch-moonoi I had never heard of this film, despite very much liking Tyrone Power and sometimes liking Joan Fontaine. But it's a gem...mostly! Tyrone Power...well, I may be a man, but what a hunk! And, more importantly, what an actor, and he's as good here as ever as a former soldier troubled as WWII gets more and more difficult. Joan Fontaine here has lost her sometimes-haughtiness, and is so good as the upper class young lady who joins the WAF and falls in love (with Power).Thomas Mitchell, usually a favorite character actor of mine, seemed slightly out of place here as an older soldier. Nigel Bruce has a very nice role here as an innkeeper; if you don't know he's in the film, you almost might not recognize him. Gladys Cooper, a wonderful character actress is here; sometimes she was wonderfully sweet, and sometimes quite the opposite; this is quite the opposite, and she doesn't get much screen time. One of the better small roles is Alexander Knox as a minister who knows the horror of war.The story is a good one -- a deserter (although we don't know that until later in the film) is struggling because of his reasons for not going back to the front...not cowardice, but animosity toward who the war will really benefit (the upper class of British society). He falls in love with an upper class British girl who has joined the WAF. They have some wonderful times together, but then he becomes hunted. Where will he go? What will he ultimately do? And then he is severely injured when saving a family during an air raid, and Fontaine's father -- a surgeon -- saves his life...and Fontaine and Power are married in the hospital.I wasn't particularly enamored with the ending, which seemed to come very suddenly, but overall this was a very well-done film. Some say it's 20th Century Fox's answer to MGM's "Mrs. Miniver" (also 1942). The latter is a fine film starring one of my favorite actresses, but I think I prefer "This Above All". Highly recommended, though because of the ending it will not end up on my DVD shelf.

JLRMovieReviews Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine star in this movie about war, patriotism, and being true to one's beliefs. Joan's a upper-crust member of society who volunteered for the WAAFs. Tyrone, an enlisted man, meets Joan, for a blind date, kind of. But he appears to have a secret or something in his past that bothers him and it begins to bother Joan.What begins as a low-key drama becomes a suspense espionage film as he is running from the law. My thoughts are not all together as I write this, and I feel it deserves a better written review than I am doing. It becomes a very personal, spiritual film as he wrestles with his conscience and the morality of war. I recommend this for anyone who wants an intelligent and deeply felt movie not just about war, but about real people thrown into these situations, who only want to do the right thing but feel they are losing a part of themselves by what they think is compromising their beliefs.Now one of my favorite movies of the stars, "This Above All" is out on a Tyrone Power DVD collection, but should be shown by TCM, so that more people will be more familiar with this unknown gem.

eric ashley I find that the movie channels are playing the same"classics" over and over again. Can it be that we are running out of old films? I find that hard to believe? I see now that TCM is starting to present films from 1970 as "classics" AMC started doing that about 10 years ago, and frankly I stopped watching the channel.Surely there are so many we can view between 1927 and 1960 that have never been seen on TV. Which brings me to my comments on "This Above All" Very simply put, I saw this beautiful film when I was oh, maybe 15 years old and already a film buff. It was on the 4:30 movie on Channel 4(NYC) in the late 60's/ early 70's . I was very touched by the film even then..I am hoping TCM plays it. It would be a long time coming...