Escape
Thrilling Book : Magnificent Picture
7.5(16) 1940-11-01 98 minDramaThriller
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.
ScreenplayArch Oboler
DirectorMervyn LeRoy
ScreenplayMarguerite Roberts
ProducerMervyn LeRoy
Original Music ComposerFranz Waxman
ProducerLawrence Weingarten
Cast & characters
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
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Edit Angold
as Ditten's Housekeeper Hilda (uncredited)
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Walter Bonn
as Concentration Camp Guard (uncredited)
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Albert D'Arno
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Helmut Dantine
as Porter (uncredited)
Kay Deslys
as Beer Garden Waitress (uncredited)
Ernst Deutsch
as Baron von Reiber (uncredited)
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Gretl Dupont
as Hilda Keller (uncredited)
William Edmunds
as White Swan Inn Waiter (uncredited)
Christl Ehlers
as Student (uncredited)
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Arno Frey
as Concentration Camp Commandant (uncredited)
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Frederick Giermann
as Porter (uncredited)
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Hans Joby
as Second Passport Official (uncredited)
