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Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 American pre-Code drama romance war film directed by James Whale and starring Mae Clarke and Kent Douglass. The screenplay by Benn Levy and Tom Reed is based on the 1930 play Waterloo Bridge by Robert E. Sherwood .
Waterloo Bridge: Directed by James Whale. With Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr. A prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.
Waterloo Bridge (1931), the first of three film versions of Robert E. Sherwood's 1930 play, is a pre-Code film that doesn't idealize or glamorize the tale of Myra, an American prostitute in World War I London and her doomed romance with Roy, a callow Canadian soldier.
In World War I London, Myra is an out-of-work American chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army.
Waterloo Bridge (1931) Movie Info Synopsis A World War I soldier (Douglass Montgomery) in London falls for a young woman (Mae Clarke) during an air raid, not realizing she is a prostitute.
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At the onset of World War I, British officer Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor) and ballerina Myra (Vivien Leigh) meet and fall in love. As fate would have it, Cronin is called to active duty shortly ...
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Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by James Whale. The screenplay by Benn Levy and Tom Reed is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Robert E. Sherwood. The film was remade twice, under its original title in 1940 and as Gaby in 1956.
Directed by James Whale. In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army.
During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major.
Directed with a delicate mixture of realism and impressionism by James Whale, the 1931 Waterloo Bridge is head and shoulders above its heavily laundered 1940 remake -- which in turn is vastly superior to the 1956 re-remake, Gaby.
