Waterloo Bridge (1931)
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German title | Waterloo Bridge |
Original title | Waterloo Bridge |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1931 |
length | 81 minutes |
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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 |
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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)