My Own True Love

My Own True Love

1948 · 84 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama, Romance

Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.

Directed by Compton Bennett · Written by Josef Mischel

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