Edge of Darkness (1943)
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.
Cast
Errol FlynnGunnar Brogge
Ann SheridanKaren Stensgard
Walter HustonDr. Martin Stensgard
Helmut DantineCaptain Koenig
Ruth GordonAnna Stensgard
Judith AndersonGerd Bjarnesen
Roman BohnenLars Malken
Monte BlueJens Petersen
Virginia ChristineHulda (Stensgard maid)
Morris CarnovskySixtus Andresen
Charles DingleKaspar Torgerson
Richard FraserPastor Aalesen
Art SmithKnut Osterholm
Nancy ColemanKatja, Koenig's woman
John BealJohann Stensgard
Frank WilcoxJensen, the shoemaker
Henry BrandonMajor Ruck
Tom FaddenHammer
Crew
- Director
- Lewis Milestone
- Writers
- Robert Rossen
- Producers
- Jack L. WarnerHenry Blanke
- Music
- Franz Waxman
- Cinematography
- Sidney Hickox
- Editing
- David Weisbart
Details
- Released
- April 9, 1943
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- IMDb
- tt0034694
