Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)

Directors

Herbert Wilcox

Cast

Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson

The story

The story follows the broadly true story of Edith Cavell who went to German-occupied Brussels after the onset of the First World War. Edith hides the young Frenchman Jean Rappard, but is suspected of this and her hospital is inspected by German troops at regular intervals. Jean is put on a canal barge and despite being searched at the border escapes successfully.

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