Edge of Darkness( 1943)

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Resistance fighters battle the Nazis in occupied Norway

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Errol Flynn
Gunnar Brogge
Ann Sheridan
Karen Stensgard
Walter Huston
Dr. Martin Stensgard
Helmut Dantine
Captain Koenig
Ruth Gordon
Anna Stensgard
Judith Anderson
Gerd Bjarnesen
Roman Bohnen
Lars Malken
Monte Blue
Jens Petersen
Virginia Christine
Hulda (Stensgard maid)
Morris Carnovsky
Sixtus Andresen
Charles Dingle
Kaspar Torgerson
Richard Fraser
Pastor Aalesen
Art Smith
Knut Osterholm
Nancy Coleman
Katja, Koenig's woman
John Beal
Johann Stensgard
Frank Wilcox
Jensen, the shoemaker
Henry Brandon
Major Ruck
Tom Fadden
Hammer
Francis Pierlot
Mortensen, the tailor
Kurt Katch
German Landing Party Captain
Tonio Selwart
German Corporal Paul
Louis V. Arco
German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Nora Bush
Townswoman (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
Cannery Worker (uncredited)
Albert Cavens
Soldier (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Townsman (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
Townsman (uncredited)
Victor Cox
Townsman (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Elderly Sailor (uncredited)
Frederick Giermann
German Pilot (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Al Haskell
Townsman (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Soldier (uncredited)
Kurt Kreuger
German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Ann Kunde
Townswoman (uncredited)
Walt La Rue
Village Patriot (uncredited)
Rolf Lindau
German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Dudley Field Malone
Winston Churchcill (voice) (uncredited)
Torben Meyer
Cannery Clerk (uncredited)
Peter Michael
German Soldier (uncredited)
Robert Milasch
Townsman (uncredited)
Ernesto Molinari
Soldier (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Townsman in Church (uncredited)
John Rice
Townsman (uncredited)
Henry Rowland
Helmut (uncredited)
John Roy
Soldier (uncredited)
Allen D. Sewall
Townsman (uncredited)
Carl Sklover
Soldier (uncredited)
Cap Somers
Soldier (uncredited)
Ray Spiker
Townsman (uncredited)
William Sundholm
Townsman (uncredited)
Helene Thimig
Mrs. Frida Malken (uncredited)
Dorothy Tree
Solveig Brategaard (uncredited)
Peter van Eyck
German Soldier (uncredited)
Roland Varno
German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Lottie Williams
Mrs. Mortensen (uncredited)
William Yetter Sr.
German Officer (uncredited)
Jack Young
Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice) (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
George Magrill
Robert R. Stephenson

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A review by talisencrw

Written by talisencrw on Sat Aug 06 2016

I have always wondered how it must have felt to make a 'wartime' movie about a war you're currently living in, and lately I stumbled upon a quintet of films made during the Second World War with Errol Flynn, of all people, battling the Nazis. Because of it both being by Turner Classic Movies AND had one film directed by Lewis Milestone (with one of the finest anti-war statements ever made, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', under his belt) and the others by none other than Raoul Walsh, I was, pardon the pun, 'in like Flynn'. But as Flynn had been one of my favourite actors of the period simply o...