War Brides Live In Squalor Aka British War Brides (1947)

Unissued / Unused material. Title reads - ’Pathe News Report - British War Brides’. Intertitle - ’Are hundreds of “abandoned“ G.I. brides “living in squalor“ in New York? The London Daily Mail said so - in a sensational dispatch. Pathe News investigates ... and presents the facts’. This is the uncut American version of the G.I. bride story, stirred up by allegations about deserted English brides, printed by the London Daily Mail. Various exterior shots of the Aberdeen hotel. M/S Mrs Kathleen Wood sat in hotel room with her two children. She says she has been misquoted and that the hotel isn’t bad and the Red Cross is good to her (doesn’t sound too convincing though!). C/U of her. M/S Daily Mail’s New York office door. M/S interior as Pathe interviewer speaks to Alan Waters, the reporter, and Don Iddon, American Correspondent. Don says Alan did a good job and he passed the story. Alan says he reported what he was told by those whose marriages had broken up and their plight has to be taken
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