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A wartime love story Read more

Starring	Sophia Loren, William Holden, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka
Director	Carol Reed
Genres	Drama

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- Rather foolish symbolic melodrama which never makes its purpose clear but along the way provides fragments of love story, chunks of the supernatural and dollops of war action, rather languidly assembled with great technical competence but little real feel
- 36374
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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  A WW1 drama filmed in black /white about tugboat crew that rescue allied ships in distress.The key is to a flat, a place of refuge from active duty , a tug ... read more »
  
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  - 22 Mar 2006 at 22:17
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  "How to steal a film by Trevor Howard" !
  
  I remember seeing this film years ago, and on going thru Trevor Howard's films thought I would recap. First and foremost Trevor Howard's performance is ... read more »
  
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  A WW1 drama filmed in black /white about tugboat crew that rescue allied ships in distress.The key is to a flat, a place of refuge from active duty , a tug ... read more »
  
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  A WW1 drama filmed in black /white about tugboat crew that rescue allied ships in distress.The key is to a flat, a place of refuge from active duty , a tug ... read more »
  
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  "How to steal a film by Trevor Howard" !
  
  I remember seeing this film years ago, and on going thru Trevor Howard's films thought I would recap. First and foremost Trevor Howard's performance is ... read more »
  
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Critics' reviews
- Rather foolish symbolic melodrama which never makes its purpose clear but along the way provides fragments of love story, chunks of the supernatural and dollops of war action, rather languidly assembled with great technical competence but little real feel
- 36374
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
- Extraordinary, unwieldy World War II naval epic which fails to deliver as much as it promises, but promises so much as... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 06 Jan 2011 at 03:45

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