NURSE CAVELL FILM

Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 8

NURSE CAVELL FILM

GERMAN OPPOSITION BERLIN, February 8. The Foreign Office announces that the Gorman Ambassadors in London and Brussels are making efforts to prevent the Nurse Cnvell film being shown in public on (he grounds that such a film “ only revives painful memories, and may embitter the relations between the countries.” LONDON, February 8. Miss Sybil Thorndike figures as the nurse in the Nurse Cavell film, which is entitled ‘ Dawn.' It is pointed out by the Gorman Foreign Office that, the film version of Nurse Cavell’s execution differs from (ho German official account, which contains nothing about a German officer having shot a, nurse or about a German soldier in the execution squad having refused to obey the order to firo. The ‘Taglichc Rundschau’ says: “ Tho film travesties truth, and the attitude of Britain towards European reconciliation leads ns to hope that menus will be found to prevent the exhibition of a film which is calculated to whip up the passions of the people. The German Embassy unofficially pointed out the undesirabloncss of the film.

The ‘Daily Express’ understands that it is unlikely that the Foreign Office will act. The only body capable of suppressing the film is the Board of Film Censors. The producers are taking no notice of the protest, and say that the film will bo shown in Brussels and Berlin, because it in nowise ofends German susceptibilities.