The Key
During World War II, successive British tugboat captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass on the key to a home port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war widow lives.
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"This excellent film comes within director Carol Reed's golden period that began with 'Odd Man Out' in 1947 and ended with 'Our Man in Havana' in 1959. Any director, even one in the same class as Reed, requires a good script to interpret and here he has a superlative screenplay by Carl Foreman based upon the novel 'Stella' by Jan de Hartog which deals with the incredible bravery of tug crews whose job it is to rescue damaged ships in a stretch of the Atlantic known as 'U-Boat Alley'. William Holden and Trevor Howard play tugboat captains and Sophia ..."
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Two endings were shot according to tcm.com. One had David join Stella on the train, the other had him just miss it, but promising to find her. This was apparently to satisfy the Motion Picture Production Code since the characters were not married.
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During World War II, successive British tugboat captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass on the key to a home port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war widow lives.