Release Date | 1939-08-31 |
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Runtime | 97 minutes |
Genres | Drama, War |
Stars | Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, Zasu Pitts |
Directors | Herbert Wilcox, Edith Cavell, Reginald Berkeley, Michael Hogan, Merrill G. White |
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