Nurse Edith Cavell
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 12, 2019
- Originally Released: 1939
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, Zasu Pitts & May Robson | |
Performer: | H.B. Warner, Sophie Stewart, Mary Howard, Robert Coote, Martin Kosleck, Lionel Royce, Jimmy Butler, Henry Brandon, Fritz Leiber, Gilbert Emery, Lucien Prival & Frank Reicher | |
Directed by | Herbert Wilcox | |
Edited by | Elmo Williams | |
Screenplay by | Michael Hogan | |
Composition by | Anthony Collins | |
Art Direction by | L.P. Williams | |
Produced by | Herbert Wilcox | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph H. August & Freddie Young |
Entertainment Reviews:
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User Ratings: 8
Description by OLDIES.com:
Nurse Edith Cavell is based on the true story of an English nurse killed by a German firing squad during World War I. Edith Cavell's tragic death, which shocked the world in 1915, had already been depicted several times on screen during the silent era. Previous movies included The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell (1916) and The Woman the Germans Shot (1918). The most recent film of the story, Dawn (1928), had been made by British director Herbert Wilcox. In 1939, he came to Hollywood with his wife, actress Anna Neagle, to make a sound version. This was Neagle's first film in America, but she and her husband would make several more there, including Irene(1940), No, No, Nanette (1940) and Forever and a Day (1943). George Sanders saw his profile greatly raised by appearing in Nurse Edith Cavell. Shortly after its release, he went from starring in "The Saint" B-pictures to working with Alfred Hitchcock at the Master of Suspense request (Sanders would have supporting roles in both Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent.) The National Council for the Prevention of War initially opposed Nurse Edith Cavell's release, worrying that it would be seen as hostile to Germany. Ironically, Germany invaded Poland a week after the film's November 1939 premiere, starting World War II. Anthony Collins' score was nominated for an Academy Award.
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- UPC: 089218819796
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