ID

FBW000668      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1944

Original Title

None Shall Escape

Directed by

André de Toth

Produced by

Sam Bishoff / Columbia Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Samuel Bischoff; Script: Lester Cole, Joseph Than; Based on: Alfred Neumann; Camera: Lee Garmes; Editing: Charles Nelson; Art direction: Lionel Banks; Music: Ernst Toch

Cast

Marsha Hunt (Marja Pacierkowski); Alexander Knox (Wilhelm Grimm); Henry Travers (Father Warecki); Erik Rolf (Karl Grimm); Richard Crane (Willie Grimm as a Man); Dorothy Morris (Janina); Richard Hale (Rabbi Levin); Ruth Nelson (Alice Grimm); Kurt Kreuger (Lt. Gersdorf); Shirley Mills (Anna Oremska); Elvin Field (Jan Stys as a Boy); Trevor Bardette (Jan Stys as a Man); Frank Jaquet (Dr. Matek); Ray Teal (Oremski); Art Smith (Stys); George Lessey (Presiding Judge)

Length

85'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 03 Feb 1944: US release date

Abstract

The German soldier Wilhelm Grimm is crippled during WWI. He returns to his home along the German-Polish border and resumes teaching school. Slowly he grows embittered with his life and becomes involved with hateful ideologies that cause his fiancee Marja Pacierkowski to leave him. After sexually assaulting one of his female students, Grimm is banished from his village. He joins the Nazi party and soon rises to power. He returns home once more, this time as a Nazi commandant and creates a wave of terror in the village.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); War criminals; Trials

Holdings

- Kinemathek Hamburg, Hamburg

Bibliography

- George, Manfred (als: m.g.): "Film-Panorama. None Shall Escape. Loew’s State", in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Jg. 10, Nr. 15, 14.04.1944
- 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