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Escape: Full Cast & Crew 1940 Drama
After discovering that his mother, a renowned German actress (Nazimova), is being held in a Nazi concentration camp, her American son, Mark Preysing (Robert Taylor), heads to Germany to track her down. While Mark initially finds little help, he is eventually aided by the empathetic American expatriate Countess Ruby von Treck (Norma Shearer) and a German doctor (Philip Dorn), and a bold plan evolves to smuggle his mother out of the camp and to the United States. See Movie Details

Cast & Crew

All Cast Crew
Mervyn LeRoy Director, Producer Norma Shearer Countess Ruby von Treck Actor Robert Taylor Mark Preysing Actor Conrad Veidt General Kurt von Kolb Actor Alla Nazimova Emmy Ritter Actor Felix Bressart Fritz Keller Actor Albert Basserman Dr. Arthur Henning Actor Philip Dorn Dr. Berthold Ditten Actor Bonita Granville Ursula Actor Blanche Yurka Concentration Camp Nurse-Matron Actor Arch Oboler Screenwriter Marguerite Roberts Screenwriter Lawrence Weingarten Producer Robert H. Planck Cinematographer George Boemler Film Editing Franz Waxman Original Music Cedric Gibbons Art Director Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration Jack D. Moore Set Decoration Adrian Costume Design Gile Steele Costume Design