Escape (1940)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Escritores:

Arch Oboler (writer)
Marguerite Roberts (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

1 noviembre 1940 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

1938: A young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.

Plot Keywords:

Germany | Escape | Deception | Heart Disease | Political Prisoner

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A minor gem...handsomely produced and well acted melodrama of the Nazi menace...

Reparto

Norma Shearer	...	Countess Ruby von Treck
Robert Taylor	...	Mark Preysing
Conrad Veidt	...	General Kurt von Kolb
Alla Nazimova	...	Emmy Ritter (as Nazimova)
Felix Bressart	...	Fritz Keller
Albert Bassermann	...	Dr. Arthur Henning
Philip Dorn	...	Dr. Berthold Ditten
Edgar Barrier	...	Commissioner of Police
Bonita Granville	...	Ursula, a Student
Elsa Basserman	...	Mrs. Henning
Blanche Yurka	...	Concentration Camp Nurse-Matron
Lisa Golm	...	Anna, Emmy's cellmate

También conocida como:

When the Door Opened

Duración:

98 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

Australia:G | USA:Approved (PCA #3610)

Compañía:

Loew's

Trivialidades:

Author Grace Zaring Stone used a pen name when her book was published to protect relatives living in Europe from Nazi retribution. Similarly, no composer credit was given in the film for the same reason, and some of the actors used fictitious names.

Citas:

Mark Preysing: She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The Miracle of Sound (1940)

Banda de Sonido:

Liebestod

A minor gem...handsomely produced and well acted melodrama of the Nazi menace...

In the Ethel Vance novel, the role of the Countess is even smaller than it is in the film. The story has been re-structured to fit MGM's Norma Shearer (still the Queen of the lot at the time) and Robert Taylor. Taylor, always an underrated actor, gives one of his most forceful, sensitive and earnest performances as an American trying to free his mother from a German prison camp and seeking the help of the Countess to achieve his goal. Suspense builds as the Nazi menace (Conrad Veidt) threatens to destroy any hope he has of enabling his mother to escape.

Handsomely produced, although much of the Alpine scenery has a studio-bound stage setting look, it gives us a glimpse of Norma Shearer's aristocratic beauty and Robert Taylor in his prime--which should be enough for some movie fans. Added to that is the suspenseful story and an excellent supporting cast--including Nazimova as the mother, Felix Bressart and Bonita Granville as a pro-Nazi sympathizer. It all moves rather smoothly under Mervyn LeRoy's direction, a glossy melodrama that unfortunately has never made its way to video. Well worth watching, so catch it if you can on one of the cable stations.