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Waterloo Road (1945)

Waterloo Road poster
Directed by
Sidney Gilliat
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 16m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A married woman struggles with the return of her soldier husband and the unwanted attention of a draftee. The film focuses on the personal lives of ordinary people dealing with the pressures of war.

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What happens

Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alastair Sim. It was written by Gilliat from a story by Val Valentine. According to the British Film Institute, it is the third in an "unofficial trilogy" by Gilliat, preceded by Millions Like Us (1943) and Two Thousand Women (1944). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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