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Overview

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7.7/10   2,627 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Robert E. Sherwood (play)
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Release Date:
17 May 1940 (USA) more
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Plot:
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. more
User Comments:
Very nice - couldn't be made today more (68 total)

Cast

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Vivien Leigh ... Myra

Robert Taylor ... Roy Cronin
Lucile Watson ... Lady Margaret Cronin
Virginia Field ... Kitty
Maria Ouspenskaya ... Madame Olga Kirowa
C. Aubrey Smith ... The Duke
Janet Shaw ... Maureen
Janet Waldo ... Elsa
Steffi Duna ... Lydia
Virginia Carroll ... Sylvia
Leda Nicova ... Marie
Florence Baker ... Beatrice
Margery Manning ... Mary
Frances MacInerney ... Violet
Eleanor Stewart ... Grace
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Additional Details

Runtime:
108 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #6168)
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Of all the classic Hollywood films ever made, this somewhat obscure title happens to be one of the most popular in China, especially among college students. There are even audio guides for students to practice their English by reciting dialogue from this film. The reason for why this particular film has become so endeared among the Chinese is anyone's guess. One possibility is that the popularity of Gone with the Wind (1939) in China led many to seek other movies starring Vivien Leigh. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Roy travels back down to London from Scotland by express train, the train shown is a Great Western Railway one which did not serve Scotland as it only served routes from Paddington (London) to the West of England and Wales. more
Quotes:
Myra Lester: Every parting from you is like a little eternity. more
Soundtrack:
It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary more

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18 out of 26 people found the following comment useful.
Very nice - couldn't be made today, 23 November 2001
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Author: Spleen from Canberra, Australia

Did I seriously fail to understand the chronology, or does this film show us an air raid warning in London during World War ONE? Did such things really happen? Not that it really matters.

LeRoy made a film which flings prostitution in our faces, and in the faces of its characters - yet he doesn't dare mention the word or show the deed explicitly. I'm not complaining; the fact that no one dares utter the p-word helps the film immeasurably. The tragedy plays out best in an atmosphere in which Myra's moral stain, or purported moral stain, is LITERALLY an unspeakable one. No modern director (with the possible exception of David Mamet) would dare NOT be explicit.

Unfortunately for a love story, the love scenes are the only interactions lacking in electricity, the only interactions, in fact, that aren't interactions at all. They're the dull bits we endure in order to enjoy the real story. I should stress that they're still pleasant enough, so it's not MUCH of an endurance test.

And what IS the real story? The delightful thing about it, I think, is that it's perfectly ambiguous. Taken one way, the romance between hero and heroine is destroyed because of the power of a pervasive, yet false, moral belief: the belief that a prostitute is tainted, unfit for marraige, love, life itself. Taken this way the story is a social tragedy. But arguably the film is asking us to make believe that the pervasive moral belief is in fact true, that the heroine really is (through no fault of her own) tainted; taken THIS way, it's a kind of moral fantasy. Either way it works.

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