Waterloo Road (1945)
Popularity3/5
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2025-09 to 2026-08
Directors
Sidney Gilliat
Cast
John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley, George Carney
The story
A soldier, Jim Colter, goes AWOL to return to his home in Waterloo, London, to save his wife from the advances of Ted Purvis, a philandering conscription-dodger.
Genres
Drama, drama film
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