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Release Date:
April 9, 1943
Original Title:
Edge of Darkness
Genres:
Drama | War
Production Companies:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 119
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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Art Direction:
Robert M. Haas
Costume Design:
Orry-Kelly
Director:
Lewis Milestone
Director of Photography:
Sidney Hickox
Editor:
David Weisbart
Executive Producer:
Jack L. Warner
Makeup Artist:
Perc Westmore
Music Director:
Leo F. Forbstein
Novel:
William Woods
Original Music Composer:
Franz Waxman
Producer:
Henry Blanke
Screenplay:
Robert Rossen
Set Decoration:
Julia Heron
Sound:
Everett Alton Brown
Special Effects:
Lawrence W. Butler
Willard Van Enger
Stunts:
Walt La Rue
Buster Wiles
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