Waterloo Bridge (1931)

Movie
German title	Waterloo Bridge
Original title	Waterloo Bridge
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1931
length	81 minutes
Rod
Director	James Whale
script	Tom Reed ; Richard Schayer
production	Carl Laemmle ; Carl Laemmle Jr.
music	Val Burton
camera	Arthur Edeson
cut	Clarence Kolster ; James Whale
occupation
	Mae Clarke : Myra Deauville; Douglass Montgomery : Roy Wetherby; Doris Lloyd : Kitty; Frederick Kerr : Major Fred Wetherby; Enid Bennett : Mrs. Mary Cronin Wetherby; Bette Davis : Janet Cronin; Ethel Griffies : Mrs. Hobley, the landlady; Rita Carlyle : The old woman; Ruth Handforth : Augusta;

Waterloo Bridge is an American feature film by James Whale from 1931. This is the first film adaptation of the popular Broadway -Theaterstücks The Waterloo Bridge (Original title: Waterloo Bridge ) by Robert E. Sherwood . Mae Clarke and Douglass Montgomery starred in this black and white film produced by Universal Pictures .

action

Roy Wetherby, a Canadian soldier on vacation in London during World War I , meets Myra on Waterloo Bridge . A little later, the two fall in love, but Roy has no idea that she is a prostitute. Just before he has to go back to the front, she accepts his proposal. They visit Roy's uncle, mother and sister in the country for a weekend. After Robert's departure, Myra realizes that she cannot escape her past and returns to London; there she is killed in an air raid.

background

The act was considered very daring at the time. Waterloo Bridge was released in 1940 as a remake with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor in the lead roles; see your first husband . In 1956 a third film adaptation was made with the title Gaby , directed by Curtis Bernhardt , which put the plot into the Second World War. The leading roles were played by Leslie Caron and John Kerr , the latter was the grandson of Frederick Kerr, who played the Colonel in this 1931 film.

The first film adaptation by James Whale was considered lost for a long time. It was rediscovered in 1975, but was not published again until two decades later.

literature

Robert E. Sherwood : The Waterloo Bridge. A piece in four pictures (original title: Waterloo Bridge ). Edited for the German stage by Heinrich B. Kranz . [Not for sale stage manuscript.] O. Eirich, Vienna 1931, 76 pp.

Web links

Waterloo Bridge in the Internet Movie Database (English)