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Synopsis: It's two years after the Nazi's invasion of Norway and in a small fishing village that is headquarters to 150 German soldiers, the 800 locals are stewing, waiting for a supply of arms so they can revolt. Leaders include Karen Stensgard, whose father is the town's doctor and not all that sure that an open revolt will accomplish much and whose brother has proven disloyal to Norway previously, and Gunnar Brogge, a fisherman who was planning to sail to England to fight but changed his mind on hearing of English arms being delivered. Although the Nazi's cruelty is evident, the townspeople bide their time, until one incident causes the stewpot to boil over.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Production: MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc
 
IMDB:
7.2
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Year:
1943
119 min
201 Views


All right.

Come here.

What is this for?

That?

Oh, I fish down there

when it's stormy and I'm afraid to go out.

All right. Hurry up there. You too.

What's this?

I was fixing my net.

You banged so hard on the door...

...it startled me and I cut myself.

Now, with your permission, I'd like to go

to a doctor before I bleed to death.

There's no use crying anymore, Anna.

They have gone.

They had no right to search this house.

- They're searching every house, Anna.

- No. They had no right to search this house.

They're not searching

your brother's house.

Oh, I'm sorry, Anna.

I didn't mean to say that.

Anna, you'd better go upstairs

and go to bed.

It's after 9:
00.

Martin.

It's just... I want them to treat you

with respect.

You're a doctor.

Doctors should be treated with respect.

Yes, Anna. Yes. Thank you.

Hulda, take Mrs. Stensgard upstairs.

It's after 9:
00.

After 9:
00.

In the old days, we used to sit up

until 11, sometimes 12.

Well, Hulda...

...we'll have to give this house

a thorough cleaning.

I hope that lamp the Germans broke

can be mended.

It was such a beautiful lamp.

- I cut my arm.

- What do you want?

A man is on his way

to Knut Osterholm's farm.

He's badly hurt.

- Who is he?

- A Norwegian.

Brogge, why don't you let me alone?

You're the only doctor in town.

Let us understand each other, Brogge.

It is my duty to heal the sick.

I go with you only because I am a doctor.

Please, Hammer.

It's just a little ways now.

I can't go any farther.

Send my daughter on a mission like this.

Maybe to her death.

Dr. Stensgard, please.

We're all as worried as you are.

- Karen, are you all right?

- I'm all right.

- You're wet, shivering. You're cold.

- Father, that man is in agony.

You must change your clothes.

You'll be sick.

Gerd has some dry clothes for you.

- Hammer.

- Here. Cut his sleeve.

Gunnar.

Gunnar.

You're all right now, Hammer.

You're all right.

Gunnar.

Listen.

Important.

I got out.

No one else.

From the beginning.

- From the beginning, Hammer.

- This man is in no condition to talk.

He must be quiet. Quiet. Hold the light.

Will he live?

I don't know.

- What are you doing?

- Putting him to sleep.

- Supposing he doesn't come out of it?

- Then let him die in peace.

Hammer, listen to me.

- Are you listening?

- This is a human being, Brogge.

I'll ask questions. You answer.

The skin has burned off his face.

It's agony for him to move his lips.

How did the revolt start?

We got arms.

They got arms.

I've known you all my life as kind,

decent people.

Hammer, how did you get the arms?

He's going to sleep.

I could kill you for this.

Hammer, you've got to hold on.

How did you get the arms?

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Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he directed The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945 he joined a picket line against Warner Bros. After making one film for Hal Wallis's newly formed production company, Rossen made one for Columbia Pictures, another for Wallis and most of his later films for his own companies, usually in collaboration with Columbia. Rossen was a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to about 1947, and believed the Party was "dedicated to social causes of the sort that we as poor Jews from New York were interested in."He ended all relations with the Party in 1949. Rossen was twice called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in 1951 and in 1953. He exercised his Fifth Amendment rights at his first appearance, refusing to state whether he had ever been a Communist. As a result, he found himself blacklisted by Hollywood studios as well as unable to renew his passport. At his second appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and his blacklisting ended. In order to repair finances he produced his next film, Mambo, in Italy in 1954. While The Hustler in 1961 was a great success, conflicts on the set of Lilith so disillusioned him that it was his last film. more…

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