A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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.

Although the English born, Laurence Olivier, Richard Greene, or Robert Donat would have done the part of Clive Briggs great justice, there was nothing wrong with the performance Tyrone Power gave in This Above All. Power does not even attempt an English accent, yet his performance is every bit as good as Robert Taylor's in Waterloo Bridge. Eric Knight's novel was a big seller and the film is a serious examination as to why this is the people's war. In a curious way Power's views which do undergo a radical transformation are a mirror image of what Marlon Brando said in The Young Lions about class distinctions.And in the same year of This Above All, Teresa Wright in Mrs. Miniver upheld the tradition of the upper classes. One of my favorite scenes from that film is Wright telling Richard Ney about the things she's involved in to make her corner of the world better. Joan Fontaine feels the same way, before she meets the cynical Power she tells her family that she feels she has to get in and do her bit. She joins the Women's Auxiliary Army Force as an enlistee, not even an officer. She feels as did Wright that class also carries responsibility.Power and Fontaine are a perfectly matched pair, she just coming off her Oscar and him at the height of his box office draw. Hollywood's English colony fills out the rest of the cast with the exception of Thomas Mitchell who is inevitably Irish.This Above All won an Oscar for Best Art Direction and it was nominated in several other categories. The film holds up remarkably well because it is both patriotic, but a very atypical and cynical film for its time, not your normal flag-waver.

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...

I enjoyed the old-fashioned values. There were a few moments where 'the director's agenda was showing" and it became very preachy. but overall, it was an interesting old film. Joan Fontaine looked radiant - Tyrone's handsome dark looks transported us back to a time long ago and far away.