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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 | Constance Bennett | John Halliday | Alan Baxter | Erwin Kalser | Edgar Buchanan | Frank Sully | Marjorie Gateson | Francis Pierlot | Jessie Busley | Melville Cooper | Stanley Logan | Leslie Denison | Don Beddoe | Norbert Schiller | Frank Alten | Bruce Bennett | Rex Post | Dick Rich | Olaf Hytten | Arthur Mulliner | Frank Baker | Frank Benson | Bobby Hale | Fred Wolff | Douglas Gordon | Jean Prescott | Hans von Morhart | Paul Michael | Wyndham Standing | Arno Frey | David Dunbar | James Kilgannon | Hans Schumann