Waterloo Bridge

This sensitive and haunting drama, directed with sympathy for the tawdry subject, features Mae Clarke as a London chorus girl who loses her job at the onset of WW I. Desperation forces her into prostitution. When air raids hit the city, Clarke takes cover under Waterloo Bridge. There she meets Douglass Montgomery, a Canadian soldier whose furlough has put him in London at the time of the bombing. Montgomery falls in love, not realizing Clarke is a streetwalker, and proposes to her shortly before he is sent off to the war. Clarke returns his affection, and without revealing her past, accepts his offer. On the weekend before Montgomery leaves, the couple goes to his ...