Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
"This Woman Must Die!"
108 min
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
- Release date
- August 31, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Anna Neagle as Nurse Edith Cavell
- Edna May Oliver as Countess de Mavon
- George Sanders as Capt. Heinrichs
- May Robson as Mme. Rappard
- Zasu Pitts as Mme. Moulin
- H.B. Warner as Mr. Hugh Gibson
- Sophie Stewart as Sister Watkins
- Mary Howard as Nurse O'Brien
- Robert Coote as Bungey
- Martin Kosleck as Pierre
Crew
- Herbert Wilcox · Director
- Michael Hogan · Writer
- Reginald Berkeley · Writer
- Herbert Wilcox · Producer
- Anthony Collins · Composer
- Joseph H. August · Cinematographer
- Freddie Young · Cinematographer
- Elmo Williams · Editor