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09/04/1943 Drama, War 1h 59m
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Resistance fighters battle the Nazis in occupied Norway

Overview

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.

  1. Lewis Milestone

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Errol Flynn

    Gunnar Brogge

  2. Ann Sheridan

    Karen Stensgard

  3. Walter Huston

    Dr. Martin Stensgard

  4. Helmut Dantine

    Captain Koenig

  5. Ruth Gordon

    Anna Stensgard

  6. Judith Anderson

    Gerd Bjarnesen

  7. Roman Bohnen

    Lars Malken

  8. Monte Blue

    Jens Petersen

  9. Virginia Christine

    Hulda (Stensgard maid)

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Reviews

A review by talisencrw
Written by talisencrw on 2016-08-06
I have always wondered how it must have felt to make a 'wartime' movie about a war you're currently living in, and lately I stumbled upon a quintet of films made during the Second World War with Errol Flynn, of all people, battling the Nazis. Because of it both being by Turner Classic Movies AND had one film directed by Lewis Milestone (with one of the finest anti-war statements ever made, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', under his belt) and the others by none other than Raoul Walsh, I was, pardon the pun, 'in like Flynn'. But as Flynn had been one of my favourite actors of the period simply ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,653,000.00

Revenue
$3,669,000.00

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