Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
1939 · Feature film · 97 min · dir. Herbert Wilcox
"This Woman Must Die!"
- Drama
- biographical film
Synopsis
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
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Herbert Wilcox
- Writer
- Michael Hogan
- Composer
- Anthony Collins
- Cinematography
- Freddie Young
- Studio
- RKO Radio Pictures, Imperadio Pictures Ltd.
- Released
- 1939-08-31
- Running time
- 97 minutes
Cast & crew
Herbert Wilcox Director
Gilbert Emery
Bert Roach
William Edmunds
Leo Reuss
Henry Brandon
H. B. Warner
Frank Reicher
Fritz Leiber
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Something Missing · james ginn · 2015-12-23
Although the movie generally follows the narrative that we have been fed for most of the past hundred years there is the issue of the Commission for Belgium Relief(CBR) wherein the food supplies were being diverted to Germany to ensure the continuation of the war. Edith Cavell's knowledge of this manipulation was most likely the true cause for her execution.
