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User Rating:
7.0/10   303 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Arch Oboler (writer)
Marguerite Roberts (writer)
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Release Date:
1 November 1940 (USA) more
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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
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(3 articles)
2012 Review
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Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor's love affair may cost them everything… including their lives! more (17 total)

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
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Feature debut of Helmut Dantine. 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
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Soundtrack:
Liebestod more

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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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