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Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Overview
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Anna Neagle | Edna May Oliver | George Sanders | May Robson | Zasu Pitts | H.B. Warner | Sophie Stewart | Mary Howard | Robert Coote | Martin Kosleck | Gui Ignon | Lionel Royce | Jimmy Butler | Rex Downing | Henry Brandon | Louis V. Arco | Egon Brecher | Adrienne D'Ambricourt | Joe De Stefani | Richard Deane | Ernst Deutsch | William Edmunds | Gilbert Emery | Jack Gargan | Halliwell Hobbes | Willy Kaufman | Fritz Leiber | Torben Meyer | Lucien Prival | Frank Reicher | Bert Roach | Bodil Rosing | Robert R. Stephenson | Henry Victor | Wilhelm von Brincken | Gustav von Seyffertitz | Gene Garrick