Waterloo Bridge
by Mervyn LeRoy
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Actor: Lucile Watson, Maria Ouspenskaya, Robert Taylor, Virginia Field, Vivien LeighDirector: Mervyn LeRoy
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 (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, 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
Movie Reviews of Waterloo Bridge
Movie Review: beautiful movie
Summary: 5 Stars
i have been watching classic films for years, and somehow missed seeing this one. i bought it when it was released recently, just because i was curious to see vivien leigh's performance. it truly is one of the most visually beautiful movies i have ever seen. why isn't this film as well known as some of the others from that period? tragic story, touching musical score throughout, with wonderful performances by everyone involved. watched the early 1930s version recently and like it as well, but this 1940 film moves very nearly to the top of my all time favorites.
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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