Jul 31st  
Forever and a Day**    
(US 1943)                                   
RKO. 104m. bw

Episodes of those living in a London house from the time of Napoleon to the time of Hitler.
Steady wartime propaganda, a multi-generational period compendium piece where the message is sometimes all too obvious, but individual scenes and performances are eye-catching, with a record number of credited writers. The final result is not as disjointed as might be feared (the well designed house is a star throughout), and as Hollywood adaptations of Britain go, this one does a little more of its homework.

Written by: Charles Bennett, Alan Campbell, Norman Corwin, C.S. Forrester, Peter Godfrey, Jack Hartfield, Lawrence Hazard, S.M. Herzig, James Hilton, Michael Hogan, Christopher Isherwood, Emmet Lavery, W.P. Lipscomb, Gene Lockhart, Frederick Lonsdale, Alice Duer Miller, R.C. Sherriff, Donald Ogden Stewart, John Van Druten, Claudine West, Keith Winter.
Producers: Victor Saville, Herbert Wilcox.
Director: Frank Lloyd, Herbert Wilcox, Robert Stevenson, Rene Clair, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Goulding.
Starring: Kent Smith, Ruth Warrick, Herbert Marshall; C. Aubrey Smith, Ray Milland, Anna Neagle, May Whitty, Gene Lockhart, Claud Allister, Claude Rains, Halliwell Hobbes; Jessie Matthews, Ian Hunter, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Buster Keaton, Montagu Love; Ida Lupino, Brian Aherne, Wendy Barrie, Edward Everett Horton, June Duprez; Merle Oberon, Una O'Connor, Gladys Cooper, Roland Young, Nigel Bruce, Robert Coote, Robert Cummings, and others.
Photography: Robert de Grasse, Lee Garmes, Russell Metty, Nicolas Musuraca.
Music: Anthony Collins.

FOREVER AND A DAY. A rare moment of cinematic luminaries all on screen together: Ian Hunter, Montague Love, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Laughton, Jessie Matthews, and propping up the bath is the unmistakable Buster Keaton