Dawn

Mar 1, 1928

1h 30m

★ 0.0

Overview

A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

British & Dominions Film Corporation

Herbert Wilcox Productions

Dawn Trailers

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Cast

Nurse Edith Cavell

Sybil Thorndike

Herself

Ada Bodart

Philippe Bodart

Gordon Craig

Mme. Rappard

Marie Ault

Jacques Rappard

Mickey Brantford

Mme. Pitou

Mary Brough

Jean Pitou - Bargekeeper

Richard Worth

Widow Deveaux

Colin Bell

Mme. Deveaux's Daughter

Dacia Deane

Col. Schultz

Cecil Barry

Gen. von Zauberzweig

Frank Perfitt

German A.P.M.

Haddon Mason

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.

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No overview available.