Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alastair Sim.

[4] A soldier, Jim Colter, goes AWOL to return to his home in Waterloo, London, to save his wife from the advances of Ted Purvis, a philandering conscription-dodger.

These humble homes of South London, the friendly bustle of pub and street market, the tawdriness of the small-time shady characters – all are presented with a resolute and austere resistance to temptations to 'glamourise'.

To complete this modest but most satisfying piece there is refreshingly honest and restrained acting – with Granger successfully rounding out the most difficult role and putting over the showy artificialities of the conceited philanderer.

It has neither Technicolor nor the inimitable Noel Coward finesse, but it, nevertheless, gets down to brass tacks without fuss or bother and prefaces its happy and logical ending with one of the best fights seen in British pictures.

Told in a rather woolly flashback structure by Alastair Sim's kindly philosophising doctor, the plot is extremely realistic for its day, but Arthur Crabtree's stark photography fails to disguise the cramped studio interiors used for much of the film.