Waterloo Bridge (1931 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Waterloo Bridge


caption =Waterloo Bridge film poster
director = James Whale
producer = Carl Laemmle Jr.
writer = Tom Reed (screenplay)
Benn Levy (screenplay)
Robert E. Sherwood (play)
starring = Mae Clarke
Douglass Montgomery
Doris Lloyd
Bette Davis
producer = Carl Laemmle Jr
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = Sep 1, 1931
runtime = 81 min.
72 min. (later re-release)
language = English
country = USA
amg_id = 1:116064
imdb_id = 0022550

"Waterloo Bridge" is a 1931 drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. The screenplay was by Benn Levy and Tom Reed from the popular Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood. The film stars Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery (billed as Kent Douglass), Doris Lloyd, and features one of the earliest appearances by Bette Davis.

The story of this Pre-Code film concerns a chorus girl turned prostitute in World War I and her meeting and relationship with a naive young soldier.

(1931 was a banner year for Mae Clarke. She also played the woman into whose face James Cagney pushed a grapefruit in "The Public Enemy" as well as Elizabeth, the bride of Dr. Frankenstein stalked by Boris Karloff in the original version of "Frankenstein".)

Remakes

*"Waterloo Bridge" (1940), starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor, in which the original story has been sanitized.
*"Gaby" (1956), a color film starring Leslie Caron and John Kerr, with a completely new ending to the story.

DVD release

The film was released on DVD on 5 December,2006, along with two other Pre-Code films, Baby Face and Red-Headed Woman, under the title of "TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1".

External links

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* [http://randomshelf.blogspot.com/2006/12/profile-and-review-forbidden-hollywood.html "Profile and Review: Forbidden Hollywood", Review by J.C. Loophole, The Shelf]
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