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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
Key, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I'm An Over-age Destroyer English WWII tugboat captain Chris (Trevor Howard) brings just-arrived old-pal Canadian colleague Ross (William Holden) home to meet his until now un-announced girlfriend Stella (Sophia Loren), her back-story vague, in The Key, 1958, directed by Carol Reed from a Jan de Hartog novel.
- Carol Reed, Gerry O'hara
- William Holden
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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 because his slow-moving ship is an...
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- Carol Reed
- Romance
- William Holden
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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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