Soldier boy meets local Italian girl falls in love, he suffers shell shock, they marry. The trials of the War Bride forms the basis of this emotional drama. Pier Angeli, plays the young woman starving in war torn Italy. She is excellent having the audience viewer wrapped around her finger, John Ericson plays the mentally fragile, returned soldier. This is their love story.
Ericson's character is a classic case of a son being overly mothered by a woman who refuses to let him leave the family nest. Angeli's character is as committed to her marriage, as her mother in law commits to breaking it up. That forms the conflict, which woman wins?
I'm sure that the war in Europe produced thousands of similar stories
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