Overview

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.

Top Cast

Leslie Banks

Col. Harry Blair

Flora Robson

Lucy Blair

Sebastian Shaw

Capt. Gilbert Reed

Patricia Hilliard

Nurse Ann Harrison

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Robert Cochran

Carlisle Smith

Anthony Bushell

Roddy Hammond

Rène Ray

Elsie Wainwright

Robert Newton

Jim Carter

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Leonora Corbett

Lady Joan

J.H. Roberts

Dr. Pearson

Eliot Makeham

Maj. Swayle

Martita Hunt

Adela Swayle