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