Escape (1940 film)

Escape is a 1940 drama film about an American in preWorld WarII Nazi Germany who discovers his mother is in a concentration camp and tries desperately to free her. It starred Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt and Alla Nazimova. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone.

Emmys son Mark Preysing Robert Taylor, an American citizen, travels to Germany in search of his mother, but nobody, not even frightened old family friends, want anything to do with him. A German official tells Mark that she has been arrested and advises him to return to the United States.The postmark of a returned letter guides Mark to the region where she is being held. There, he meets by chance Countess Ruby von Treck Norma Shearer, an Americanborn widow, but she also does not want to become involved, at least at first. Then, she asks her lover, General Kurt von Kolb Conrad Veidt, about Emmy and learns that she has been judged a traitor in a secret trial and sentenced to death. ........

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