Nurse Edith Cavell

"This Woman Must Die!"

Sinopse

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

6.4
1939
Released
1h 37m

Anna Neagle

Edna May Oliver

George Sanders

May Robson

Zasu Pitts

H.B. Warner

Sophie Stewart

Mary Howard

Robert Coote

Martin Kosleck

Gui Ignon

Lionel Royce

Jimmy Butler

Rex Downing

Henry Brandon

Louis V. Arco

Egon Brecher

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Undetermined Role

Joe De Stefani

Manager

Richard Deane

Lt. Wilson, Airman

Ernst Deutsch

Dr. Schroeder, Public Prosecutor

William Edmunds

Gilbert Emery

Jack Gargan

Halliwell Hobbes

Willy Kaufman

Fritz Leiber

Torben Meyer

Lucien Prival

Frank Reicher

Bert Roach

Bodil Rosing

Robert R. Stephenson

Henry Victor

Wilhelm von Brincken

German Firing Squad Officer

Gustav von Seyffertitz

President of Trial Court

Gene Garrick

Young German Soldier

Status

Released

Original Language

Keywords

#nurse
#biography
#hospital

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Reviews

@Geronimo1967over 3 years ago

Anna Neagle in the title role and Edna May Oliver as the Countess de Mavon are on great form in this authentic looking biopic of the first world war nurse who ran a small hospital in Brussels. The two women quickly establish a network to help prisoners of war escape home via Holland, but it doesn't take the Bosch long to discover what's going on and the stiff necked sophisticate, "Capt. Heinrichs"