Edge of Darkness (1943)

Edge of Darkness
5.2
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  • Genre: Drama War
  • Running time: 119 min
  • Premiere: 9th of April 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.

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Cast

Errol Flynn
as Gunnar Brogge
Ruth Gordon
as Anna Stensgard
Judith Anderson
as Gerd Bjarnesen
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Henry Brandon
as Major Ruck
Ann Sheridan
as Karen Stensgard
Virginia Christine
as Hulda (Stensgard maid)
Roman Bohnen
as Lars Malken
Dorothy Tree
as Solveig Brategaard (uncredited)
Tom Fadden
as Hammer
Torben Meyer
as Cannery Clerk (uncredited)
William Edmunds
as Elderly Sailor (uncredited)
Peter van Eyck
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Cap Somers
as Soldier (uncredited)
Helmut Dantine
as Captain Koenig
Carl Sklover
as Soldier (uncredited)
Kurt Katch
as German Landing Party Captain
Walter Huston
as Dr. Martin Stensgard
Paul Kruger
Roland Varno
as German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Kurt Kreuger
as German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Monte Blue
as Jens Petersen
Frank Wilcox
as Jensen, the shoemaker
Nancy Coleman
as Katja, Koenig's woman
Kit Guard
as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Art Smith
as Knut Osterholm
Henry Rowland
as Helmut (uncredited)
Charles Dingle
as Kaspar Torgerson
Tonio Selwart
as German Corporal Paul
George Magrill
John Beal
as Johann Stensgard
Kenner G. Kemp
as Soldier (uncredited)
Morris Carnovsky
as Sixtus Andresen
Helene Thimig
as Mrs. Frida Malken (uncredited)
Richard Fraser
as Pastor Aalesen
Ray Spiker
as Townsman (uncredited)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
as German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
as Cannery Worker (uncredited)

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