For You Alone

For You Alone
Promotional poster
Directed byGeoffrey Faithfull
Written byKathleen Butler
Montgomery Tully
Produced byF.W. Baker
StarringLesley Brook
Dinah Sheridan
Jimmy Hanley
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Music byHarry Bidgood
Distributed byButcher's Film Service
Release date
  • 28 May 1945 (1945-05-28)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

For You Alone is a 1945 British World War II romance melodrama, one of only two films directed by cinematographer Geoffrey Faithfull, starring Lesley Brook, Dinah Sheridan and Jimmy Hanley. The film was made by a smaller studio, Butcher's Films – more known for turning out quickly and cheaply shot B-movies – and had a lack of (at the time) star names, but appears to have been a relatively sophisticated and well-financed production. On its release, three weeks after V-E Day, the film became a huge popular success, seeming to catch the mood of a nation just beginning to emerge from war.

For You Alone is often categorised as a musical, and indeed was promoted as such, but this is somewhat misleading; in crucial concert scenes the film features singers Heddle Nash and Helen Hill with accompaniment from the London Symphony Orchestra; however, none of the film's actors sing.