So Ends Our Night (1941)
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80% of users liked it
(32 ratings)
The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War II, Adolph Hitler goes unmentioned (we wouldn't want to lose those foreign markets, would we?) Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel Flotsam, the film zeroes in on… More The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War II, Adolph Hitler goes unmentioned (we wouldn't want to lose those foreign markets, would we?) Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel Flotsam, the film zeroes in on three German refugees. Frederic March despises the Nazis on ideological grounds; Margaret Sullavan, a Jew, is fleeing for her life; and Glenn Ford, born of a Jewish mother and Aryan father, is racked with confusion and torn loyalties. The three separate as they move from country to country in Europe, just a step or so ahead of the advancing Nazis. As Sullavan and Ford fall in love, March puts his life on the line by trying to arrange a reunion with his ailing wife Frances Dee, who has remained in Germany. Had So Ends Our Night been released a few months after the US entry into the war, it might have done better at the box office. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Cromwell
- Written By
- Talbot Jennings
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 27, 1941 Wide
- Studio
- VCI
Critic Reviews
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Though containing a number of lighter scenes and blessed with a strong sense of humanity (a Cromwell trademark), the film pulls no punches and is all the stronger for it.
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Phil Hall, Film Threat
A mess of melodramatic puffery that ultimately trivializes the tragedy it wants to spotlight.
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Cast
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Fredric March
as Josef Steiner
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Margaret Sullavan
as Ruth Holland
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Frances Dee
as Marie Steiner
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Glenn Ford
as Ludwig Kern
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Anna Sten
as Lilo
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Erich von Stroheim
as Brenner
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Allan Brett
as Marcel
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Joseph Cawthorn
as Patzlock
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Leonid Kinskey
as The Chicken
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Alexander Granach
as The Pole
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Roman Bohnen
as Mr. Kern
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Sig Rumann
as Ammers
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William Stack
as Prof. Meyer
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Lionel Royce
as Barnekrogg
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Ernst Deutsch
as Dr. Behr
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Spencer Charters
as Swiss Policeman
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Hans Schumm
as Kobel
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Walter O. Stahl
as Police Captain
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Philip Van Zandt
as Bachman
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Fredrik Vogeding
as Gestapo Colonel
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Joe E. Marks
as The Bird
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James Bush
as Herbert
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Emory Parnell
as Weiss
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Kate MacKenna
as Mrs. Ammers
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Edith Angold
as Ammera' Sister-in-Law
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Edward Fielding
as Durant
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William Von Brincken
as German Official
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Lisa Golm
as The Pale Woman
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Adolph Milar
as Black Pig Proprietor
- Marjorie Rambeau
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Gisela Werbiseck
as The Harpy
- Sig Ruman
