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The Key is a 1958 British-American war film set in 1941 during the Battle of the Atlantic. It was based on the 1951 novel Stella by Jan de Hartog (later republished as The Distant Shore and The Key) and was directed by Carol Reed. William Holden, Sophia Loren and Trevor Howard starred in the production.
The Key: Directed by Carol Reed. With William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oscar Homolka. During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Carol Reed
- 1958-06-06
The Key (Italian: La chiave) is an Italian erotic film directed by Tinto Brass. Set in Venice under the fascist regime in the early months of 1940, it recounts a tale of a voluptuous woman in her forties who is unable to respond to her husband but undergoes a belated sexual awakening with her daughter's fiancé, which enables her to please her ...
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During World War II, Englishwoman Stella (Sophia Loren) is involved with Capt. Ford (Trevor Howard), who commands a military tugboat. Ford's mission is dangerous...
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- Carol Reed
- Romance
- William Holden
Key, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Exactly Volunteer After a heady prologue about the courage of early WWII tug boat crews, William Holden as Canadian Ross arrives, south coast of England ca. 1940, greeted by Wadlow (Bernard Lee) and a convincing reunion with Ford (Trevor Howard), in The Key, 1958, directed by Carol Reed.
A war-time romance about a tugboat captain and a war-widow who share a flat in London. The captain gives the key to the flat to his successor, who falls in love with the woman and faces the dangers of the U-Boat Alley.
