Edge of Darkness (1943)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1943-04-09
Runtime: 119 minutes
Director: Lewis Milestone
Budget: $1,653,000 USD
Revenue: $3,669,000 USD
Top Cast
- Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge
- Ann Sheridan as Karen Stensgard
- Walter Huston as Dr. Martin Stensgard
- Helmut Dantine as Captain Koenig
- Ruth Gordon as Anna Stensgard
- Judith Anderson as Gerd Bjarnesen
- Roman Bohnen as Lars Malken
- Monte Blue as Jens Petersen
- Virginia Christine as Hulda (Stensgard maid)
- Morris Carnovsky as Sixtus Andresen
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