Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000060 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1944 |
Original Title |
They Live in Fear |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Jack Fier; Assistent director: William A. O'Connor; Script: Samuel Ornitz (Treatment), Michael L. Simmons (Story), Ruth Nussbaum (Story), Hilda Stone (Story); Based on: Wilfried Pettitt; Camera: George Meehan; Editing: James Sweeney; Sound: Lodge Cunningham; Art direction: Lionel Banks, Carl Anderson; Set decoration: Joseph Kish |
Cast |
Clifford Severn (Paul Graffen); Pat Parrish (Pat Daniels); Jimmy Carpenter (Johnny Reynolds); Otto Kruger (Matthew Van Camp); William Benedict (als: Billy Benedict) (Thomas 'Mack' Knight); Danny Desmond (Jack Edwart); Danny Jackson (Googy, the Nerd); Jimmy Zaner (Joe Elwood); Jimmy Clark (Ole Swanson); Erwin Kalser (Jan Dorchik); Fred Giermann (Kapitan-Instructor); John Nelson (Friedrich Stoesen); Hugh Beaumont (Instructor); Egon Brecher (Heinrich Graffen); Fritz Brunn (als: Frederic Brunn)); Kay Dowd (Ann); Olga Fabian (Frau Graffen); Almeda Fowler (Mrs. Daniels); Betty Jane Graham (Marta Graffen); Peggy Leon (Mrs. Van Camp); Eileen McClory (Judy); Joe McGuinness (Anderson); George Sorel (Dachau Kommandant); Hermine Sterler (Frau Stoesen); Philip Van Zandt (Provost Marshal); Douglas Wood (John Elwood); William Yetter, Jr. (Helmut); Wolfgang Zilzer (als: Paul Andor) (Old Man) |
Length |
65' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 06 Oct 1944: US release date |
Further Remarks |
- Tonsystem: Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording |
Abstract |
After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp Dachau German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany. |
Subject Terms |
Anti-Nazi films (US); Dachau (Concentration camp); Emigrants; University; USA |
Bibliography |
- Schwab, Lothar (Red.): Exil. Sechs Schauspieler aus Deutschland. Wolgang Zilzer (Paul Andor), Bd. 6, Berlin/West: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1983 |