Edge of Darkness

Synopsis

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German 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.

Errol Flynn

Gunnar Brogge

Ann Sheridan

Karen Stensgard

Walter Huston

Dr. Martin Stensgard

Helmut Dantine

Captain Koenig

Ruth Gordon

Anna Stensgard

Judith Anderson

Gerd Bjarnesen

Roman Bohnen

Lars Malken

Monte Blue

Jens Petersen

Virginia Christine

Hulda (Stensgard maid)

Morris Carnovsky

Sixtus Andresen

Charles Dingle

Kaspar Torgerson

Richard Fraser

Pastor Aalesen