Synopsis

Edge of Darkness (1943)

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor’s wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor’s daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor’s son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Lewis Milestone
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine, Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon, John Beal, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Dingle, Roman Bohnen, Richard Fraser, Art Smith, Louis V. Arco, Monte Blue, Henry Brandon, Nora Bush, Glen Cavender, Albert Cavens, Noble Chissell, Virginia Christine, Tom Coleman, Victor Cox, William Edmunds, Tom Fadden, Frederick Giermann, Kit Guard, Al Haskell, Kurt Katch, Kenner G. Kemp, Kurt Kreuger, Ann Kunde, Walt La Rue, Rolf Lindau, Dudley Field Malone, Torben Meyer, Peter Michael, Robert Milasch, Ernesto Molinari, Francis Pierlot, Harry ‘Snub’ Pollard, John Rice, Henry Rowland, John Roy, Tonio Selwart, Allen D. Sewall, Carl Sklover, Cap Somers, Ray Spiker, William Sundholm, Helene Thimig, Dorothy Tree, Peter van Eyck, Roland Varno, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Frank Wilcox, Lottie Williams, William Yetter Sr., Jack Young
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