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Escape

Name: Escape
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Released: 1940-01-01

1940 film by Mervyn LeRoy

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Released: 1940
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Screenwriter: Arch Oboler
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten
Cast: Norma Shearer
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, Robert Taylor
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, Conrad Veidt
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, Alla Nazimova
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Runtime: 102 min
Genre: drama film
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Country of origin: United States

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Escape is a 1940 American 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.

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Main subject: World War II
Nazi Germany
Title: Escape
Director of photography: Robert H. Planck
Film editor: George Boemler
Color: black-and-white
Costume designer: Adrian
Production designer: Cedric Gibbons
Narrative location: Germany
Has characteristic: film based on a literary work

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