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