Escape

Plot

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.

  • Mervyn LeRoy

    Director

  • Grace Zaring Stone

    Novel

  • Arch Oboler

    Screenplay

  • Marguerite Roberts

    Screenplay

  • Robert H. Planck

    Director of Photography

  • George Boemler

    Editor

  • Norma Shearer

    Countess Ruby von Treck

  • Robert Taylor

    Mark Preysing

  • Conrad Veidt

    General Kurt von Kolb

  • Alla Nazimova

    Emmy Ritter

  • Felix Bressart

    Fritz Keller

  • Albert Bassermann

    Dr. Arthur Henning

  • Philip Dorn

    Dr. Ditten

  • Edgar Barrier

    Commissioner

  • Bonita Granville

    Ursula

  • Elsa Bassermann

    Mrs. Henning

  • Blanche Yurka

    Nurse

  • Lisa Golm

    Anna

  • Edit Angold

    Ditten's Housekeeper Hilda (uncredited)

  • Walter Bonn

    Concentration Camp Guard (uncredited)

  • Albert D'Arno

    Elevator Operator (uncredited)

  • Helmut Dantine

    Porter (uncredited)

  • Kay Deslys

    Beer Garden Waitress (uncredited)

  • Ernst Deutsch

    Baron von Reiber (uncredited)

  • Gretl Dupont

    Hilda Keller (uncredited)

  • William Edmunds

    White Swan Inn Waiter (uncredited)

  • Christl Ehlers

    Student (uncredited)

  • Arno Frey

    Concentration Camp Commandant (uncredited)

  • Frederick Giermann

    Porter (uncredited)

  • Hans Joby

    Second Passport Official (uncredited)

  • Erwin Kalser

    Hotel Barkeeper (uncredited)

  • Florine McKinney

    Student (uncredited)

  • Adolph Milar

    Salesman (uncredited)

  • Marianne Mosner

    Maria a Student (uncredited)

  • Lotte Palfi Andor

    Ruby's Maid Julie (uncredited)

  • Maria Ray

    Baroness von Reiber (uncredited)

  • Henry Rowland

    Hotel Bellhop (uncredited)

  • Trude Rosen

    Student (uncredited)

  • Hans Schumm

    Gestapo Officer with Dark Eyebrows (uncredited)

  • Janet Shaw

    Greta a Student (uncredited)

  • Anya Taranda

    Student (uncredited)

  • Henry Victor

    Gestapo Officer with Hooked Nose (uncredited)

  • Frederick Vogeding

    First Passport Official (uncredited)

  • Marek Windheim

    Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

  • Fred Wolff

    Waiter (uncredited)

  • William Yetter Sr.

    Heinrich (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    98 minutes

    Released

    1940-11-01

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Sound

  • Franz Waxman

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    36 days ago

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