ALFREDTON TALKIES
NURSE EDITH CAVELL. The martyrdom of the renowned and patriotic war-time nurse who suffered the penalty of death for smuggling convalescent soldiers out of the combat zone, is the basis of “Nurse Edith Cavell,” starring Anna Neagle, and which will be shown on Thursday night at Alfredton. Based on actual events in the life of the great humanitarian, the dramatic story traces the activities of Edith Cavell from the time she headed a nursing home in Brussels, through the first year of the World War when she alternated her hospital work with the dangerous mission of smuggling Allied soldiers across the Dutch border, up to the fateful trial during which an enemy military court found her guilty. The heartgripping story offers the star of “Victoria the Great” her most dramatic of vehicles. Edna May Oliver, May Robson and Zasu Pitts are seen as Cavell’s close accomplices, while the cast of forty supporting players also includes George Sanders, H. B. Warner and Robert Ccote.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1940, Page 7
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165ALFREDTON TALKIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1940, Page 7
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