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Waterloo Bridge(1940)?

post #1 of 5
8/21/07 at 6:11am
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Anybody who knows if Warner has said anything about if it will be released?
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post #2 of 5
8/21/07 at 8:54am

Re: Waterloo Bridge(1940)?

I recall vaguely a couple of years ago that WB mentioned that it was on the radar screen, and I thought that it would eventually be brought out with the James Whale version as an extra. When the Whale version showed up on last year's "Forbidden Hollywood," I was very disappointed. The Leigh-Tasylor version is the superior one and one of the great movie love stories....a worthy candidate for Valentines marketing. Hopefully they will include GABY, the 1956 CinemaScope remake when they decide to bring it out on dvd.
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post #3 of 5
8/21/07 at 10:55am

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My guess would be next Valentine's Day, too. I hope A Story of Three Loves can be released as well.
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post #4 of 5
8/22/07 at 12:53am

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Wonderful film savaged by spanish censorship. They couldn't coup with poor Vivien's lifestyle in the film, so they turned her into a chorus girl instead of a prostitute. Did they succeed? Well, in the altered version there were many dubbed lines changing the original dialogue and many cuts, but there's one scene they couldn't do without, and it was the infamous train station scene, when she and Robert Taylor reunites, for it is important for the drama. In it you can clearly see what kind of business she is in.
I don't know if people in Franco's Spain back in the 40's were fool enough to believe (SPOILER AHEAD)>>>>>> the character decided to kill herself just because she had been a chorus girl during wartime<<<<<<, but for a kid in the 80's when I first watched it on tv (still censored, cause nobody bothered then to check if they could find the original version) it was confusing. And when she confronts her mother in law to be, she just mumbles some confusing reason not to marry Taylor. Somehow mother knew what she meant. But I was still confused.
Anyways, I was fascinated by the ravishing beauty of Miss Leigh just the same.
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post #5 of 5
8/22/07 at 10:25am

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Alejandro, that's fascinating! I wonder if they had to film any different scenes as well, that would make for an interesting DVD extra.

This film has always been one of my all-time favorites so its' DVD release is definitely one I eagerly anticipate. I also wish they would release the score as well, but I would bet those original elements no longer exist.
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