Harbour CityFeature Film, 1948 In this drama about young love against the odds, a desperate reform school girl with a cruel mother meets a sailor who has just come ashore. |
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In February 1948, Olle Länsberg (b. 1922), sold what Ingmar Bergman said was a "manuscript an inch thick" with the title "The Gold and the Walls" to SF. Bergman was asked to work on a screenplay together with Länsberg and to direct the subsequent film. According to Bergman, the best thing about the initial project was "going about Gothenburg with Länsberg and looking at the place from the inside. It was true I'd been living there for years, but I detested the place."
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