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Verenigde Staten
Drama
108 minuten

geregisseerd door Mervyn LeRoy
met Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor en Lucile Watson

Op de vooravond van de Tweede Wereldoorlog denkt Roy Cronin terug aan zijn tijd als soldaat tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog, en aan zijn vriendin Myra Lester, die hij vlak voor de oorlog ontmoette maar al snel moest verlaten om naar het front te vertrekken. Lester kreeg abusievelijk te horen dat Cronin gestorven was in de strijd, wat resulteerde in een vreselijke tijd voor haar.


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DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009


Director: Mervyn LeRoy

Principal Cast:
          Vivien Leigh,
          Robert Taylor


Description
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Mervyn 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.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 4.36 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 109 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): English | French

Subtitles: optional English | French | Japanease | Thai


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