Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust


They Live in Fear. D: Berne [US, 1944]

ID

FBW000060      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1944

Original Title

They Live in Fear

Directed by

Josef Berne

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
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987
- Martin, Len D: The Columbia Checklist. The Feature Films, Serials, Cartoons and Short Subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988. Jefferson, NC / London: McFarland, 1991