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Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
Screenplay by | Arch Oboler Marguerite Roberts |
Based on | Escape 1939 novel by Ethel Vance |
Produced by | Mervyn LeRoy Lawrence Weingarten (uncredited) |
Starring | Norma Shearer Robert Taylor Conrad Veidt Nazimova Felix Bressart Albert Bassermann Philip Dorn Bonita Granville |
Cinematography | Robert H. Planck |
Edited by | George Boemler |
Music by | Franz Waxman |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,205,000[1][2] |
Box office | $1,357,000 (Domestic earnings)[1] $1,007,000 (Foreign earnings)[1] |
Escape is a 1940 drama film about an American in pre-World War II Nazi Germany who discovers his mother is in a concentration camp and tries desperately to free her. It starred Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt and Nazimova. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone.