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The Seventh Cross is a 1944 film starring Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907—March 14, 1997) was a noted film director. ...
Pandro Samuel Berman (28 March 1905 – 13 July 1996), known as Pandro S. Berman, was an American film producer. ...
Helen Deutsch (21 March 1906-15 March 1992) was an American screenwriter, journalist and songwriter. ...
Anna Seghers (November 19, 1900 - June 1, German writer who was born in Mainz and died in Berlin. ...
Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. ...
Signe Hasso (August 15, 1910 – June 7, 2002) was a Swedish actress. ...
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a stage and film actor. ...
Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning English theatre, film and TV actress who became an American citizen. ...
Moorehead as Endora on Bewitched Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was an Oscar-nominated American character actress. ...
Herbert Rudley, (March 22, 1910 - September 9, 2006), was a prolific character actor who appeared on stage, in films and on television. ...
Roy Webb (October 3, 1888 - December 10, 1982) was a film music composer. ...
Karl W. Freund (January 16, 1890-May 3, 1969) was a German cinematographer who worked on over 100 films, including Metropolis (1927), Dracula (1931), and Key Largo (1948). ...
Thomas Richards (8 January 1899 – 4 January 1946) was an American film editor. ...
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Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. ...
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a stage and film actor. ...
Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning English theatre, film and TV actress who became an American citizen. ...
This was the first feature film directed by Fred Zinnemann, later noted for films such as High Noon. Cronyn was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the film. It was the first film in which Cronyn and Tandy, who were married, appeared together. Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907—March 14, 1997) was a noted film director. ...
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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 persecution of Jews. The Seventh Cross is a 1944 film with Hume Cronyn. ...
Anna Seghers (November 19, 1900 - June 1, German writer who was born in Mainz and died in Berlin. ...
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The film was an acting tour de force for Tracy, who is silent for long stretches of the film and has little dialogue.
Prominent Swedish actress Signe Hasso, despite her second-place billing, actually has only a small role toward the conclusion of the film. MGM publicity played up the minor and fleeting romantic element, with the tag line "The revealing novel of a hunted man's search for love!" In fact, in both the novel and film, the protagonist is seeking escape, not a relationship. Signe Hasso (August 15, 1910 – June 7, 2002) was a Swedish actress. ...
Refugees from Nazi Germany played many small roles, with a small bit part played by Helene Weigel, the prominent German actress and wife of Bertolt Brecht. Born in Vienna in 1900 the daughter of a Jewish Lawyer, she was one of the most outstanding German actors of her generation, a Communist Party member from 1930 and Artistic Director of The Berliner Ensemble after her husband Bertholt Brechts death in 1956. ...
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Plot summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The year is 1936, and as the film opens, seven prisoners are escaping from the Westhofen Concentration Camp in western Germany near the Rhine. They represent a cross-section of German society: a writer, a circus peformer, a schoolmaster, a farmer, a Jewish grocery clerk, and two prisoners who are apparently political activists. One is George Heisler (Tracy) and the other is his mentor Wallau (Ray Collins), the leader of the group. The River Rhine (Dutch: ; French: ; German: ; Italian: ; Romansh: ) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe at 1,320 kilometres (820 miles), with an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second. ...
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The commandant erects seven crosses and vows to "put a man on each." The first to be apprehended is Wallau, who dies without giving information and now narrates the film. The film follows Heisler as he makes his way across the German countryside, stealing clothing and watching as the Nazis round up every other escaped prisoner, to the indifference of the local population.
Despite the overwhelming brutality of his countrymen, Heisler does receive help. Still, he is soured to the German people and humanity in general. He makes his way to his home city of Mainz. His contact there has been arrested. He cannot visit his family, because they are being watched, so he goes to his old friends, Paul and Liesl Roeder (Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy). These are humble, apolitical working people with young children, but they still agree to risk all to help him. Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ...
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a stage and film actor. ...
Jessica Tandy, christened Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a noted Academy Award-winning English theatre, film and TV actress who became an American citizen. ...
Roeder gets in touch with the German underground, whose members risk their lives to get Heisler out of the country. Through his exposure to this courage and kindness, and with the help toward the end of a sympathetic waitress (Hasso), Heisler regains his faith in humanity. Thanks to their help, he escapes to Holland on a cargo ship.
Spoilers end here.
The novel vs. the film The author of the novel from which this movie was adapted, Anna Seghers, was a Communist, and Wallau and Heisler were Communists in the book. In the film, their political affiliation is not given.
The film also conformed to Hollywood norms by showing Heisler, who seeks aid from a girlfriend at one point, as unmarried. In the novel, he is married and had been cheating on his wife.
Though sentimental and largely depoliticized, the film manages to capture the spirit of the Seghers novel.
Awards and nominations The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a stage and film actor. ...
External links - The Seventh Cross at Internet Movie Database
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