The White Cliffs Of Dover

Alice Duer Miller's poem was the inspiration for this sentimental look at the ravages of war and at the courage of one woman who lost both her husband and son in the two world wars that dominated this century. Dunne is a Red Cross supervisor in England, awaiting casualties of WWII. At her desk, she ruminates about her past and flashes back to 1914, when she comes to England with Morgan, her father, a newspaper publisher in a medium-sized town in the US. In no time at all, Dunne meets, falls in love with, and marries wealthy and titled Marshal. They are ecstatic, but their happiness is brief; WWI breaks out, and Marshal must serve his country in France, where he is ...