ID

FBW001397      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1948

Original Title

Sealed Verdict

Directed by

Lewis Allen

Produced by

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Robert Fellows; Script: Jonathan Latimer; Based on: Lionel Shapiro; Camera: Leo Tover; Special optical effects: Gordon Jennings; Editing: Alma Macrorie; Art direction: Hans Dreier, John Meehan; Set decoration: Sam Comer, Ray Moyer; Costumes: Mary Kay Dodson; Makeup: Wally Westmore; Music: Hugo Friedhofer

Cast

Ray Milland (Maj. Robert Lawson); Florence Marly (Themis DeLisle); Broderick Crawford (Capt. Kinsella); John Hoyt (Gen. Otto Steigmann); John Ridgely (Capt. Lance Nissen); Paul Lees (Priv. Clay Hockland); Ludwig Donath (Jacob Meyersohn); Olive Blakeney (Camilla Cameron); Marcel Journet (Capt. Gribemont); Celia Lovsky (Emma Steigmann); Dan Tobin (Lt. Parker); James Bell (Elmer Hockland); Elisabeth Risdon (Cora Hockland); Frank Conroy (Col. Pike); Charles Evans (Gen. Kirkwood); June Jeffery (Erika Wagner); Patricia Miller (Maria Romanek); Selmer Jackson (Dr. Bossin); Ann Doran (Ellie Blaine); Dorothy Granger (Edna Brown); John Eldredge (Col. Macklin); Eric Alden (Man); Archie Twitchell (Medical Captain); Otto Reichow (German Soldier); Carole Mathews (Nurse); Edward Van Sloan (Priest); Torben Meyer (Interpreter); Norbert Schiller (Slava Rodal)

Length

2328 m / 85'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

US Army prosecutor Maj. Robert Lawson has secured the conviction of SS General Otto Steigmann for war crimes has doubts about the man's guilt, but after investigation, finds proof to his satisfaction.

Subject Terms

Exile films; Post-war trials; Nuremberg trial; Trials

Bibliography

- , in: Today's Cinema, Vol. 71, Nr. 5673, 14.07.1948
- , in: Kinematograph Weekly (London), Nr. 2150, 15.07.1948
- , in: Monthly Film Bulletin (London), Vol. 15, Nr. 176, August, 01.08.1948
- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987