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
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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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