how anyone can praise this crude film version after see the marvelous waterloo bridge with vivien leigh and robert taylor and be beyond comprehension . mae clarke myra be a far cry from the role a play by vivien leigh in the remake . she play a common american girl with a brooklyn accent and the yeah response be a bit jar when one be expect a less coarse character . douglas montgomery ( bill in final credit a kent douglas ) be wildly improbable a a soldier smitten with her no matter how many time she let him down . bette davis have a nothing role in a bit part . their melodramatic confrontation during the last twenty minute of the film be beyond belief ( extravagant bit of overact ) even give the fact that this be a crude version of the story when sound be only a few year old and silent acting be still the rage . just awful . and it end abruptly with clarke lose her life during a bombing on the bridge . the end . it have none of the beautifully shaded performance in the mgm remake of 1940 and include a sterling support cast . instead and this one be mount with low budget production value ( and i mean a shoe string budget ) with no subtlety at all . and there no pre code braveness in the scene where myra tell the aristocratic lady why she must not marry her son and roy . she simply say and i pick him up on waterloo bridge . explanation over . nothing bold there . sum up represent for once and the original be not the best version by any mean . vivien leigh and robert taylor have never be surpass a myra and roy in the tender and exquisitely acted 1940 film classic .