Bitter Victory
Aug 28, 1957 | IMDB 6.2
102 min Watch NowDrama, War
During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
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