Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge; Ann Sheridan as Karen Stensgard; Walter Huston as Dr. Martin Stensgard; Nancy Coleman as Katja; Helmut Dantine as Capt. Koenig; Judith Anderson as Gerd Bjarnesen; Ruth Gordon as Anna Stensgard; John Beal as Johann Stensgard; Morris Carnovsky as Sixtus Andresen; Charles Dingle as Kaspar Torgerson; Roman Bohnen as Lars Malken; Richard Fraser as Pastor Aalesen; Art Smith as Knut Osterholm; Louis V. Arco as German Lieutenant; Monte Blue as Petersen
Rating
G (General Audience)
Cinematography
Sidney Hickox
Language
English
Plot
The film pivots around the local doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore the occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son, has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.