The Seventh Cross is a 1944 film starring Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Cronyn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first film in which Cronyn and Tandy, who were married, appeared together.
This was the first feature film directed by Fred Zinnemann, later noted for films such as High Noon.
The movie was adapted from the novel of the same name by the German refugee writer Anna Seghers. Produced...
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The Seventh Cross is a 1944 film starring Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Cronyn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first film in which Cronyn and Tandy, who were married, appeared together.
This was the first feature film directed by Fred Zinnemann, later noted for films such as High Noon.
The movie was adapted from the novel of the same name by the German refugee writer Anna Seghers. Produced in the midst of the Second World War, it was one of the few films of the era to depict a Nazi concentration camp or mention the persecution of Jews.
The year is 1936. Seven prisoners escape from the Osthofen (Westhofen is a mistake, it was the CC Osthofen) Concentration Camp near Worms, Germany near the Rhine. They represent a cross-section of German society: a writer, a circus performer, a schoolmaster, a farmer, a Jewish grocery clerk, and two prisoners who are apparently political activists. One is George Heisler (Tracy) and the other his...
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