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