"Thrilling Book : Magnificent Picture" 01 November 1940 Drama, Thriller 98 mins
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
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Norma Shearer as Countess Ruby von Treck
Robert Taylor as Mark Preysing
Conrad Veidt as General Kurt von Kolb
Alla Nazimova as Emmy Ritter
Felix Bressart as Fritz Keller
Albert Bassermann as Dr. Arthur Henning
Philip Dorn as Dr. Ditten
Edgar Barrier as Commissioner
Bonita Granville as Ursula
Elsa Bassermann as Mrs. Henning
Blanche Yurka as Nurse
Lisa Golm as Anna
Edit Angold as Ditten's Housekeeper Hilda (uncredited)
Walter Bonn as Concentration Camp Guard (uncredited)
Albert D'Arno as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Helmut Dantine as Porter (uncredited)
Grace Zaring Stone Novel
Arch Oboler Screenplay
Mervyn LeRoy Director
Marguerite Roberts Screenplay
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
George Boemler Editor
Mervyn LeRoy Producer
Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration
Al Shenberg Assistant Director
Robert H. Planck Director of Photography
Franz Waxman Original Music Composer
Lawrence Weingarten Producer
Adrian Costume Design
Jack D. Moore Set Decoration
Gile Steele Costume Design
Jack Dawn Makeup Designer
United States 31 October 1940
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