Nurse Edith Cavell
Nurse Edith Cavell
Release: 1939-08-31
·Runtime: 97m
·★ 6.4
Drama
War
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
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
Imperadio Pictures Ltd.
Cast
Mary Howard
as Nurse O'Brien
Gilbert Emery
as Brand Whitlock
Gene Garrick
as Young German Soldier
Martin Kosleck
as Pierre
Henry Brandon
as Lt. Schultz
Henry Victor
as Jaubec
Wilhelm von Brincken
as German Firing Squad Officer
Jimmy Butler
as Jean Rappard
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
as Undetermined Role
Ernst Deutsch
as Dr. Schroeder, Public Prosecutor
Bert Roach
as George Moulin
Anna Neagle
as Nurse Edith Cavell
Halliwell Hobbes
as British Chaplain
George Sanders
as Capt. Heinrichs
Rex Downing
as François Rappard
Egon Brecher
as Dr. Gunther
Joe De Stefani
as Manager
Bodil Rosing
as Charlotte
Sophie Stewart
as Sister Williams
May Robson
as Mme. Rappard
H.B. Warner
as Hugh Gibson
Lionel Royce
as Gen. von Ehrhardt
William Edmunds
as Albert
Torben Meyer
as Bit Role
Gustav von Seyffertitz
as President of Trial Court
Edna May Oliver
as Countess de Mavon
Zasu Pitts
as Mme. Moulin
Robert Coote
as Bungey
Fritz Leiber
as Sadi Kirschen
Lucien Prival
as Lt. Schmidt
Frank Reicher
as Baron von Bissing
