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Waterloo Bridge
UNITED KINGDOM · 1931

Waterloo Bridge

James Whale
wartime romance class difference prostitution deception redemption
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Synopsis

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myr

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