The Seventh Cross (1944)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
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Fred Zinnemann directed this World War II drama, considered one of the best anti-Nazi dramas produced by Hollywood during the war years. The story concerns seven prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp who manage to elude the guards and the Gestapo. The commandant, in a rage over their escape, nails crosses to seven trees, planning to crucify each of the prisoners as they are captured. Gradually six of the prisoners are discovered by the Gestapo and crucified. The one remaining escapee, George
Jul 24, 1944 Wide
Oct 23, 1991
Cast
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Spencer Tracy
George Heisler -
Signe Hasso
Toni -
Hume Cronyn
Paul Roeder -
Jessica Tandy
Liesel Roeder -
Agnes Moorehead
Mme. Marelli -
Herbert Rudley
Franz Marnet -
George Macready
Bruno Sauer -
Felix Bressart
Poldi Schlamm -
Ray Collins
Wallau -
Alexander Granach
Zillach -
Katherine Locke
Mrs. Sauer -
Steven Geray
Dr. Lowenstein -
Kurt Katch
Leo Herman -
Kaaren Verne
Leni -
Konstantin Shayne
Fuellgrabe -
George Suzanne
Bellani -
John Wengraf
Overkamp -
George Zucco
Fahrenburg -
Steven Muller
Hellwig -
Eily Malyon
Fraulein Bachmann -
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Paul Guilfoyle
Fiedler -
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All Critics (6) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (0) | DVD (1)
This is a film of fine performances.
Top CriticIf you will accept this premise, despite the evidence of recent deeds, then you should be both moved and shaken by the better part of this film.
With Tracy heading the cast and a host of great character actors in support, it's hardly surprising that the performances are the most memorable aspect of Zinnemann's first major feature.
One of the best of the swarms of anti-Nazi films Hollywood produced during the war years.
Spencer Tracy, usually solid, is miscast as a German who escapes from concentration camp, but then the whole saga is fake, compared to Zinnemann's later works.
Tracy is superb, while Zinnemann delivers a powerful piece of work that accurately captures the sense of time and place.
Audience Reviews for The Seventh Cross
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A very unique war movie, made in 1944, about events from 1936 Germany. The rise of the Nazi party was in full swing. People were either blindly following the Hitlers plan, or if they were brave enough, fighting it in the underground resistance. Tracy plays George Heisler, a German prison camp escapee. He, along with six others, bust out to freedom --it is a fleeting moment, as one by one, they are captured and returned to hang on the camp commanders makeshift crosses fabricated from seven trees in the court yard.
While the movie has it's flaws (like [b]Spencer Tracy[/b] being a little to pudgy for a prison camp), it still is a very good film. It was unusual for Hollywood to take a sympathetic look at some of the German people when we were at the height of the war, but the German underground was saving people from sure death.
As I watched, I could not help but relate his journey to the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". As normal, sane minds are captured by the radical insane thinking that was the Nazi's, and would turn in an old friend because it was the right thing to do. Kind of like turning in your neighbor to Homeland Security because he is a strange individual and doesn't look "normal".
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