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Nurse Edith Cavell

Nurse Edith Cavell

6,6 /10 (12 Votes)
1939 EN 97 min

Overview

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

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Release date

31/08/1939

Votes

12

Popularity

1.7

"This Woman Must Die!"

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Released

Language

EN

Runtime

97 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-06-22

⭐ 7

Anna Neagle in the title role and Edna May Oliver as the Countess de Mavon are on great form in this authentic looking biopic of the first world war nurse who ran a small hospital in Brussels. The two women quickly establish a network to help prisoners of war escape home via Holland, but it doesn't take the Bosch long to discover what's going on and the stiff necked sophisticate, "Capt. Heinrichs" (George Sanders) leads the investigation into their increasingly perilous activities. The outcome is the stuff of history, and the story stays tragically faithful to that - Herbert Wilcox tells the t…

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