Edge of Darkness (1943 film)

Edge of Darkness is a 1943 World War II film directed by Lewis Milestone that features Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston. The feature is based on a script written by Robert Rossen which was adapted from the 1942 novel The Edge of Darkness by William Woods.

The local doctor, Martin Stensgard Walter Huston and his wife Ruth Gordon want to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore the occupiers. The doctor would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. Kaspar Togersen Charles Dingle, his brotherinlaw, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctors daughter, Karen Ann Sheridan, is involved with the resistance and is in a romantic relationship with its leader Gunnar Brogge Errol Flynn. Johann John Beal, the doctors son, has just returned to town having been sent down from the university but is soon influenced by his Nazisympathizer uncle. Karen makes it known to the townsfolk that her brother is a traitor.The key group of resistance members, headed by Gunnar and Karen, anxiously await the secret arrival of arms from an English submarine. They hide the delivery of weapons in a cellar and call upon the townsfolk to delay violence until the opportune moment. Karen, on her way to a resistance meeting, is grabbed by a German soldier and disappears, while Gunnar frantically searches the town for her. She eventually appears at the meeting, clothes torn and face bruised, indicative that she has been raped. Gunnar loses his perspective after seeing what the Germans have done to the woman he loves and begins to go crazy, ordering that the fighting begin. Karen tells him that it is still not yet the time and as he calms down, the radio which has only been broadcasting static for a week finally picks up Churchills broadcast from England, giving them all hope. ........

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