Waterloo Bridge
by Mervyn LeRoy
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Actor: Lucile Watson, Maria Ouspenskaya, Robert Taylor, Virginia Field, Vivien LeighDirector: Mervyn LeRoy
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
Editor: George Boemler
Producer: Sidney Franklin
Writer: George Froeschel
Writer: Hans Rameau
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood
Writer: S.N. Behrman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Vivian Leigh stars as a ballerina in war-torn England who turns to prostitution when she believes her fiance has died in the war in this drama based on Robert E. Sherwood's acclaimed play. Robert Taylor co-stars. Year: 1940 Director: Mervyn LeRoy Starring: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR Age:
Movie Reviews of Waterloo Bridge
Movie Review: WATERLOO BRIDGE
Summary: 5 Stars
Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
I've now seen Waterloo Bridge at least a half dozen times. I'm a Vivien Leigh expert and I have seen most of her movies. She is the one gifted actress of the modern era. This movie is captivating by it mixture of beauty and tragedy. Vivien Leigh's performance as the tragic Myra Lester is more memorable at times than in GWTW. There are show-stopping moments that are one of those 'most memorable movie moments' especially when Myra is at the train station and she sees something that changes her life. This is where the movie truly begins and it can all be expressed just by her face without even moving a muscle. Robert Taylor puts on a gallant performance but he is playing Roy Cronin of Scottish aristocracy. He's from the US Mid-West and doesn't make any attempt to put on an accent. There's a few times you have to suspend your disbelief in the movie. It was from another era but it is still quite timely. When I was a teenager I first saw just the opening segment when London was being bombed. I was young then and didn't watch the whole movie. When I watched it later, I was surprised. London was bombed during WWI! The movie wasn't taking place during WWII. There is great historical significance to the movie and what stops it from going down into melodrama is the heart-wrenching academy award winning soundtrack that includes Auld Lang Syne.
Waterloo Bridge gets overshadowed by GWTW and A Streetcar Named Desire but this is one of the best movies to come out of the 40's and Leigh's career. It's surprising that she wasn't even nominated for an academy award for such a strong, memorable performance. WB comes highly recommended as it will expand your knowledge of Classic Movies.
Judy D. Ivanda
White Rock, BC, Canada
Summary of Waterloo Bridge
Vivian Leigh stars as a ballerina in war-torn England who turns to prostitution when she believes her fiance has died in the war in this drama based on Robert E. Sherwood's acclaimed play. Robert Taylor co-stars. Year: 1940 Director: Mervyn LeRoy Starring: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria OuspenskayaMervyn LeRoy's 1940 remake of Waterloo Bridge, based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood, stars Robert Taylor as Scotsman Roy Conin, a middle-aged officer in the British army who reflects--on the eve of Britain's entry into World War II--on lost love during the last Great War. Told in flashback, Roy's ill-fated romance begins in a chance meeting with ballerina Myra Deauville (Vivien Leigh) during a London air raid. In less than two days, Roy's near-obnoxious, aristocratic self-confidence and boyish exuberance sweep Myra off her feet and she agrees to marry him before he ships out for duty in Germany. But there's no time for the wedding, and during what should be a happy first meeting with Roy's mother (Lucile Watson), Myra receives mistaken information that Roy is dead on a battleground. From there, Myra spirals downward into poverty and prostitution, until cruel fortune reveals that Roy is quite alive. While a tearjerker, Waterloo Bridge also says something about wartime conditions where women are caught between pressures of survival (especially where and when women have few options) and social values that condemn them for staying alive by any means. Told as delicately as possible, the film is directed with tasteful straightforwardness by LeRoy (Random Harvest) and the key performances by Taylor and Leigh strike exactly the right melodramatic but not bathetic pitch. Nice work, too, by Virginia Field as Myra's equally luckless friend. --Tom Keogh
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