Escape (1940 film)

Escape
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Directed byMervyn LeRoy
Screenplay byArch Oboler
Marguerite Roberts
Based onEscape
1939 novel
by Ethel Vance
Produced byMervyn LeRoy
Lawrence Weingarten (uncredited)
StarringNorma Shearer
Robert Taylor
Conrad Veidt
Nazimova
Felix Bressart
Albert Bassermann
Philip Dorn
Bonita Granville
CinematographyRobert H. Planck
Edited byGeorge Boemler
Music byFranz Waxman
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • November 1, 1940 (1940-11-01)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ a b c Glancy, H. Mark "When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-1945" (Manchester University Press, 1999)
  2. ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.