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Nurse Edith Cavell

64 %|Aug 31, 1939|Drama, War

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

Featured Crew

Herbert Wilcox
Director
Reginald Berkeley
Story
Edith Cavell
Novel
Michael Hogan
Writer
Herbert Wilcox
Producer
Merrill G. White
Associate Producer
Anthony Collins
Original Music Composer
Joseph H. August
Director of Photography

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Cast

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Anna Neagle
Nurse Edith Cavell
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Edna May Oliver
Countess de Mavon
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George Sanders
Capt. Heinrichs
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May Robson
Mme. Rappard
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Zasu Pitts
Mme. Moulin
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H.B. Warner
Hugh Gibson
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Sophie Stewart
Sister Williams
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Mary Howard
Nurse O'Brien
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Gui Ignon
Cobbler
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Lionel Royce
Gen. von Ehrhardt
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Jimmy Butler
Jean Rappard
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Rex Downing
François Rappard
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Henry Brandon
Lt. Schultz
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Louis V. Arco
Pvt. Rammler
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Egon Brecher
Dr. Gunther
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Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Undetermined Role
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Richard Deane
Lt. Wilson, Airman
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Ernst Deutsch
Dr. Schroeder, Public Prosecutor
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Gilbert Emery
Brand Whitlock
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Jack Gargan
German Soldier
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Halliwell Hobbes
British Chaplain
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Willy Kaufman
Baron von Weser
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Fritz Leiber
Sadi Kirschen
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Torben Meyer
Bit Role
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Lucien Prival
Lt. Schmidt
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Frank Reicher
Baron von Bissing
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Bert Roach
George Moulin
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Bodil Rosing
Charlotte
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Robert R. Stephenson
German Officer
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Wilhelm von Brincken
German Firing Squad Officer
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Gustav von Seyffertitz
President of Trial Court
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Gene Garrick
Young German Soldier