🎥 None Shall Escape - 1944 - Marsha Hunt - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

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The film centres on the trial of Wilhelm Grimm, a war criminal. Each character witness provides a flashback scene to a previous part of Grimm's life.

In the trial, it is revealed that Grimm (Alexander Knox), who fought for Germany in World War I and lost a leg in battle, returns after the war to the small German village of Lidzbark (now part of Poland) where he had been a teacher.

Despite the recent hostilities, he is welcomed back into the community and resumes his teaching. He also resumes his relationship with Marja Pacierkowski, a local Polish girl to whom he had become engaged before the war.

He is bitter about Germany's losing the war and it is obvious he has been changed by the experience. He treats the villagers with disdain, and his upcoming marriage is cancelled. He calls his fiancée a "peasant" only interested in her wedding dowry.

Taunted by the school's pupils, who say he is not fit to marry any Polish woman, he molests one of them, Anna, a young girl. The rape is blamed on her young male friend, Jan Stys, but Wilhelm's fiancée accidentally stumbles on the truth from Anna.

The girl subsequently drowns herself in the lake. A mob gathers seeking vengeance, but a trial is required. Nevertheless, Jan throws a stone, putting out Wilhelm's left eye. After the trial fails to convict him, Wilhelm returns to Germany, after borrowing money from the priest and the rabbi.

In Germany, he goes to Munich to the house of his brother Karl, who is married to a young family. Karl clearly despises the Nazis, referring scornfully to "that Hitler creature".

Karl cannot dissuade Wilhelm, though, and Wilhelm joins the Nazi Party and rises through its ranks. In 1929 he is sought by the police after the Nazi Party is made illegal. His nephew keeps the police at bay and Wilhelm rewards him with a swastika badge. As the Nazis grow in strength, Karl decides he has no option but to leave Germany and go to Vienna.

He threatens to reveal Wilhelm's part in the Reichstag fire unless he joins them but, instead of doing so, Wilhelm turns them over to the authorities, sending his own brother to a concentration camp. He then arranges that Karl's son enters the Hitler Youth.

When World War II starts, Grimm becomes the commander of the occupying force of the same village where he had previously lived. He treats the villagers brutally. He forces Marja, now a schoolteacher, to burn the children's books, saying they will be replaced by German books.

He cruelly says that time has not treated her well and taunts her for rejecting him due to his leg injury. His nephew Willie, whom Wilhelm asserts that he treats as his own son, is now serving under him and pursuing Marja's daughter, Janina.

Grimm, who is now a Reich Commissioner, next becomes involved in the large-scale deportation of the Jews and other minority groups. He commands the rabbi to quell dissent among the crowd as they are being placed on a train. The rabbi, knowing that they are going to die, instructs the crowd to rebel instead, upon which the Nazis turn machine guns onto the crowd. Wilhelm kills the rabbi with his pistol. Father Warecki exchanges final words with him as he dies.

The plot unfolds ...

✅ Credits :

Directed by : Andre DeToth
Screenplay by : Lester Cole
Story by : Alfred Neumann and Joseph Than
Produced by : Samuel Bischoff
Cinematography : Lee Garmes
Edited by : Charles Nelson
Music by : Ernst Toch
Colour Process : Black and white
Production Company : Columbia Pictures
Distributed by : Columbia Pictures
Release Date : February 3, 1944

✅ Cast :

Marsha Hunt as Marja Pacierkowski, Grimm's fiancée
Alexander Knox as Wilhelm Grimm
Henry Travers as Father Warecki, the village priest in Litzbark
Erik Rolf as Karl Grimm
Richard Crane as Willie as a young man
Dorothy Morris as Janina
Richard Hale as Rabbi David Levin
Ruth Nelson as Alice Grimm
Kurt Kreuger as Lt. Gersdorf
Billy Dawson as Willie, Wilhelm's young nephew
Trevor Bardette as Jan Stys as a man (uncredited)
Elvin Field as the young Jan Stys (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet as Dr Matek, mayor of Lizbark (uncredited)
Shirley Mills as Anna Oremska, the raped girl (uncredited)
Art Smith as Jan's father (uncredited)
Ray Teal as Oremski, Anna's father (uncredited)

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_Shall_Escape

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