The Uprising
2026 · History · Drama
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Film / 1943
Forever and a Day
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.
The story
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 SmithGates Trimble Pomfret
Reginald GardinerAssistant Hotel Manager
Victor McLaglenArchibald Spavin
Billy BevanWartime Cabby
Arthur TreacherSecond Air Raid Watcher
Ruth WarrickLesley Trimble
C. Aubrey SmithEustace Trimble
Edmund GwennStubbs
Ray MillandBill Trimble
May WhittyLucy Trimble
Gene LockhartCobblewick
Anna NeagleSusan Trenchard
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Claude RainsAmbrose Pomfret
Jessie MatthewsMildred Trimble
Reginald OwenSimpson
Ian HunterDexter Pomfret
Charles LaughtonBellamy
Cedric HardwickeMr. Dabb
Anna LeeCornelia Trimble-Pomfret
Patric KnowlesTrimble-Pomfret Son
Edward Everett HortonAnthony Trimble-Pomfret
Isobel ElsomLady Trimble-Pomfret
June DuprezJulia Trimble-Pomfret
Wendell HulettAugustus Trimble-Pomfret
Ida LupinoJenny Jones
Brian AherneJim Trimble
Merle OberonMarjorie Ismay
Una O'ConnorCaroline Ismay
Nigel BruceMajor Garrow
Elsa LanchesterMamie
Robert CooteBlind Officer
June LockhartGirl in Air Raid Shelter
Roland YoungHenry Barringer
Gladys CooperMrs. Barringer
Robert CummingsNed
Donald CrispCaptain Martin
George KirbyWartime Newspaper Vendor
Doreen MunroeWartime Londoner
May BeattyWartime Londoner Cook
Connie LeonWartime Londoner
Joy HaringtonWartime Bus Conductor
Herbert MarshallCurate in Air Raid Shelter
Buster KeatonWilkins
Ernest GrooneyHotel Manager
Harry AllenFirst Cockney Air Raid Watcher
Aubrey MatherMan in Air Raid Shelter
Ethel GriffiesWife of Man in Air Raid Shelter
Halliwell HobbesDoctor
Montagu LoveSir John Bunn
Cecil KellawayDinner Guest
Wendy BarrieEdith Trimble-Pomfret
Queenie LeonardMaid
Eric BloreCharles
Emily FitzroyMs. Fulcher
Richard HaydnMr. Fulcher
Odette MyrtilMadame Gaby
June TrippV. A. D. girl
Ivan F. SimpsonDexter
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