Film
Edge of Darkness
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Lewis Milestone
- Year
- 1943
Resistance fighters battle the Nazis in occupied Norway
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.
Top cast
Errol Flynn
Gunnar Brogge
Ann Sheridan
Karen Stensgard
Walter Huston
Dr. Martin Stensgard
Helmut Dantine
Captain Koenig
Ruth Gordon
Anna Stensgard
Judith Anderson
Gerd Bjarnesen
Roman Bohnen
Lars Malken
Monte Blue
Jens Petersen
Virginia Christine
Hulda (Stensgard maid)
Morris Carnovsky
Sixtus Andresen
Charles Dingle
Kaspar Torgerson
Richard Fraser
Pastor Aalesen
Art Smith
Knut Osterholm
Nancy Coleman
Katja, Koenig's woman
John Beal
Johann Stensgard
Frank Wilcox
Jensen, the shoemaker
Henry Brandon
Major Ruck
Tom Fadden
Hammer
Directed by
Lewis Milestone
Written by
Robert Rossen
Produced by
Henry Blanke
