UK,
1958, 134 min
Directed by:
Carol ReedScreenplay:
Carl ForemanCinematography:
Oswald MorrisComposer:
Malcolm ArnoldCast:
William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Kieron Moore, Bernard Lee, Bryan Forbes, Michael Caine, Carl Möhner, Rupert Davies, John Crawford (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
During World War II a tugboat captain falls in love with an immigrant girl, living in a British coastal town. He meets her through a system in which the key to her apartment is passed on to him by the previous lover, also a tugboat captain, when the latter knows death awaits him in the high seas. (official distributor synopsis)
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