Escape.

Duration: 11 reels.

Genre: drama

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Mervyn LeRoy

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt

Description: Emmy Ritter (Alla Nazimova) is held in a Nazi concentration camp. She is scheduled to be executed soon, but the sympathetic camp doctor, Ditten, has been a fan since childhood and offers to deliver a letter from her to her children...afterwards. Emmy's son Mark Preysing (Robert Taylor), an American citizen, travels to Germany in search of his mother, but nobody wants anything to do with him.

Complete Record: ESCAPE. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 11 reels, sd., b&w. A Mervyn LeRoy production. Based on the novel by Ethel Vance. Credits: Director, Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay, Arch Obeler, Marguerite Roberts; film editor, George Boemler. © Loew's Inc.; 4Nov40; LP10038.

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