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Escape to Glory (1940)
Directed by John Brahm
Overview
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940’s Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers—one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O’Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.
Rated NR | Length 64 minutes
Actors
Pat O’Brien | Melville Cooper | Alan Baxter | John Halliday | Frank Baker | Bruce Bennett | Edgar Buchanan | Don Beddoe | Norbert Schiller | Olaf Hytten | Francis Pierlot | Frank Sully | Arno Frey | Constance Bennett | Dick Rich | Bobby Hale | Leslie Denison | Marjorie Gateson | Stanley Logan | Jessie Busley | Wyndham Standing | Frank Benson | Erwin Kalser | Arthur Mulliner | Frank Alten | Hans von Morhart | David Dunbar | James Kilgannon | Douglas Gordon | Rex Post | Jean Prescott | Fred Wolff | Paul Michael | Hans Schumann