Released only days after the start of WW II, British producer-director Herbert Wilcox's remake of his own 1928 silent is a poignant biography with a strong antiwar message. Anna Neagle plays nurse Edith Cavell, who works in a hospital in German-occupied Brussels, treating casualties from
both sides in WW I. However, nurse Cavell and several other capable women (ZaSu Pitts, Edna May Oliver, May Robson) also operate an underground network that helps escaped POWs make their way to safety in Holland--that is, until the Germans learn of her activity and execute the courageous nurse for
espionage. Uncompromising in its portrait of the ravages of war, NURSE EDITH CAVELL i...
Released:
1939
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins