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Nurse Edith Cavell


Director: Herbert Wilcox

Genre: Drama

Year: 1939

Running time: 98 minutes

Territory: International

Studio: Cohen

Format: DCP

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

Language options: Dialogue - EN

A gripping story of the martyrdom of Edith Cavell during World War I. Nurse Cavell’s Brussells hospital cares for friend and foe alike, and becomes the focal point in an underground system, assisting refugees and escaped POW’s over the border to Holland. When the German High Command accuses her of espionage, she is arrested, tried and sentenced to death before a firing squad.




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