Movie · 1939
Nurse Edith Cavell
Released 31 August 1939 More from 1939 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
May Robson
as Mme. Rappard
Gustav von Seyffertitz
as President of Trial Court
H.B. Warner
as Hugh Gibson
Halliwell Hobbes
as British Chaplain
Torben Meyer
as Bit Role
Ernst Deutsch
as Dr. Schroeder, Public Prosecutor
Bert Roach
as George Moulin
Zasu Pitts
as Mme. Moulin
Martin Kosleck
as Pierre
Sophie Stewart
as Sister Williams
Robert Coote
as Bungey
Henry Brandon
as Lt. Schultz
Rex Downing
as François Rappard
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The numbers
67years between the oldest and youngest billed
81May Robson — oldest on the call sheet
14Rex Downing — youngest billed
47average age of the credited cast