Thursday, January 21, 2016

Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)


Academy Awards, USA 1940

Nominated
Oscar
Best Music, Original Score
Anthony Collins

RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)

A nurse at a hospital in Nazi-occupied Brussels helps an escaped POW escape. Soon others follow, and before long she and her friends are running a virtual underground escape system. The Nazis, led by George Sanders, are mostly inept, but eventually she is caught, put on trial and sentenced. Unusual story of all-female resistance fighters is intelligently told by prolific director-producer Wilcox, though the performance by lead Anna Neagle is rather stiff. Deserves to be better known, if only for a restored print... the only one floating around is in poor condition.

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