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Waterloo Bridge 1940

Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 remake of the 1931 American drama film also called Waterloo Bridge, adapted from the 1930 play Waterloo Bridge. In an extended flashback narration, it recounts the story of a dancer and an army captain who meet by chance on Waterloo Bridge. The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay is by S. N. Behrman, Hans…


‘Waterloo Bridge’ (1940): The Power of Subtlety

Commentary When I heard that there was a 1940 movie of “Waterloo Bridge,” I was surprised. Having seen the 1931 film of the same name with Mae Clarke and Douglass Montgomery, I knew the controversial story: during World War I in England, a naïve young soldier meets a prostitute and falls in love with her,…