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Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Writers:
Arch Oboler (writer)
Marguerite Roberts (writer)
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Release Date:
1 November 1940 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
1938: A young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp. full summary | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
Playing it Straight
 (From AfterElton.com. 7 April 2009, 6:31 PM, PDT)

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Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor's love affair may cost them everything… including their lives! more

Cast

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Norma Shearer ... Countess Ruby von Treck

Robert Taylor ... Mark Preysing
Conrad Veidt ... General Kurt von Kolb

Alla Nazimova ... Emmy Ritter (as Nazimova)
Felix Bressart ... Fritz Keller
Albert Bassermann ... Dr. Arthur Henning
Philip Dorn ... Dr. Berthold Ditten
Edgar Barrier ... Commissioner of Police
Bonita Granville ... Ursula, a Student
Elsa Basserman ... Mrs. Henning
Blanche Yurka ... Concentration Camp Nurse-Matron
Lisa Golm ... Anna, Emmy's cellmate
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
When the Door Opened
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Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:G | USA:Approved (PCA #3610)
Company:
Loew's more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Author Grace Zaring Stone used a pen name when her book was published to protect relatives living in Europe from Nazi retribution. Similarly, no composer credit was given in the film for the same reason, and some of the actors used fictitious names. more
Quotes:
Mark Preysing: She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Miracle of Sound (1940) more
Soundtrack:
Liebestod more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor's love affair may cost them everything… including their lives!, 10 September 1998
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Author: Patrick Sullivan (sullivpj@sce.com) from Los Angeles, California

This is an unusual film for the Queen of MGM, Norma Shearer. Although she has never looked better, in this suspense drama, she is not the central character but rather a supporting one. The story centers on Robert Taylor who is desperate to evacuate his mother (played by the silent screen legend Alla Nazimova) from Nazi occupied Europe. Director Mervyn LeRoy keeps the pace going swiftly and contemporary audiences will enjoy the film as much as they did in 1940 when it opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

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