Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000322 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1943-1944 |
Original Title |
Uncertain Glory |
Other Title(s) |
Auf Ehrenwort (German) |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Burbank, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Robert Buckner; Location manager: Frank Mattison; Dialoge direction: James Vincent; Assistent director: James McMahon; Script: Laszlo Vadnay, Max Brand; Based on: Joe May (Originalgeschichte), Laszlo Vadnay (Originalgeschichte); Camera: Sid Hickox; Editing: George Amy; Sound: Oliver S. Garretson; Art direction: Robert M. Haas; Technical consultant: Paul Coze; Set decoration: Walter F. Tilford; Special Effects: E. Roy Davidson; Makeup: Perc Westmore; Music: Adolph Deutsch; Musical direction: Leo F. Forbstein; Musical arrangements: Jerome Moross |
Cast |
Errol Flynn (Jean Picard); Paul Lukas (Marcel Bonet); Jean Sullivan (Marianne); Lucile Watson (Mme. Maret); Faye Emerson (Louise); Sheldon Leonard (Henri Duval); Ivan Triesault (Saboteur); James Flavin (Captain Guard Mobile); Douglas Dumbrille (Police Commissioner); Dennis Hoey (Father Le Clerc); Odette Myrtil (Mme. Bonet); Francis Pierlot (Father La Borde, Prison Priest); Wallis Clark (Razeau); Victor Kilian (Latour); Albert Van Antwerp (Vitrac); Art Smith (Warden); Carl Harbaugh (Innkeeper); Erskine Sanford (Drover); Mary Servoss (Drover's Wife); Charles La Torre (Restaurant Keeper); Pedro de Cordoba (Executioner); Bobby Walberg (Gaston/Pierre Bonet); Felix Basch (Gestapo Major); Joel Friedkin (Veterinary); Fred Cordova (Guard); George Magrill; Jean Del Val (Turnkey); Mike Gaddis (Barber); Creighton Hale (Prison Secretary); Joyce Tucker (Michele Bonet); Connie Leon (Maid); Paul Panzer (Train Guard); Alfred Paix (French Waiter); Robert Emmet Keane (Conductor); Hans Schumm (Gestapo Agent); Robert C. Fischer (Station Master); Fernanda Eliscu (Middle-aged Woman); Zina Torchina (Peasant Girl); Armand Cortez (Detective); George Meader (French Doctor); Fritz Brunn (German Soldier); Harry Hayes Morgan (German Officer); Adele St. Maur (Woman on Bus); Sarah Padden (Peasant Woman on Bus); Art Miles (Bus Driver); Trevor Bardette (First Passenger on Train); Michael Mark (Second Passenger on Train) |
Length |
2802 m / 102'25'' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 03 Apr 1944: Preview, New York, NY |
Further Remarks |
- Zensurlänge, BRD: 2443 m / 89'20'' |
Abstract |
In occupied Paris during WWII, Jean Picard is a thief and murderer about to be guillotined. He is about to lose his head when British planes raid Paris, and the falling bombs hit the prison and give him a chance to escape. He flees toward Spain, with inspector Marcel Bonet, in hot pursuit. Eventually Marcel Bonet recaptures Jean Picard and the two are on a train returning to Paris when saboteurs blow up the bridge ahead of them. The two are forced to spend some time in a small village, where Jean Picard charms local girl Marianne. The Nazis, searching for the saboteurs, take 100 hostages and threaten to kill them if the culprits do not step forth. Jean Picard makes a proposition to Marcel Bonet. Since he is going to die one way or another, he will confess to the sabotage and die in front of a German firing squad rather than have his head chopped off. Picard is actually stalling while he figures a way to escape again, but when he learns that Marianne is among the hostages, he goes through with his self-sacrifice. |
Subject Terms |
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Holdings |
- Cinématheque Municipal, Luxembourg |
Bibliography |
- Hellmer, Kurt (als: k.h.): "Film-Panorama. Uncertain Glory. Strand", in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Jg. 10, Nr. 15, 14.04.1944 |