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My Own True Love
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Compton Bennett Director
- Phyllis Calvert as Joan Clews
- Melvyn Douglas as Clive Heath
- Wanda Hendrix as Sheila Heath
- Robert Walker as Charles Stone
- Philip Friend as Michael Heath
- Binnie Barnes as Geraldine
- Alan Napier as Kittredge
- Arthur Shields as Iverson
- Phyllis Morris as Mrs. Peach
- Richard Webb as Corporal
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