Underground (1941)
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20% want to see it
(5 ratings)
Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous scum--several months before America's entry into World War II. Jeffrey Lynn plays an impressionable young European who is intoxicated by the "glories" of National… More Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous scum--several months before America's entry into World War II. Jeffrey Lynn plays an impressionable young European who is intoxicated by the "glories" of National Socialism. Lynn's brother, Philip Dorn, is on the opposite side of the fence as an announcer for an underground Resistance radio station. At first scornful of his brother's activities, Lynn soon learns that Hitler isn't the saint he believed him to be--especially after several of his friends are liquidated by the Gestapo. Lynn belatedly joins his brother's cause and, at the cost of his own life, helps the Resistance thwart a band of fifth columnists. Underground is a solid piece of film craftsmanship, lacking only the big star names that would have made it a box-office hit. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Vincent Sherman
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
Unrated,
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Solid war drama.
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Cast
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Jeffrey Lynn
as Kurt Franken
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Philip Dorn
as Eric Franken
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Kaaren Verne
as Sylvia Helmuth
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Mona Maris
as Fraulein Gessner
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Peter Whitney
as Alex
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Frank Reicher
as Prof. Baumer
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Martin Kosleck
as Heller
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Erwin Kalser
as Dr. Franken
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Ilka Gruning
as Frau Kranken
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Egon Brecher
as Herr Director
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Ludwig Stossel
as Herr Muller
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Hans Schumm
as Heller's Aide
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Wolfgang Zilzer
as Hoffman
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Henry Brandon
as Rolf
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Lotte Palfi
as Greta Rolf
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Lisa Golm
as Ella
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Louis V. Arco
as Otto
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Roland Drew
as Gestapo
- Rudolph Anders
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Edith Angold
as Cashier
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Glen Cavender
as Man
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Hans Conried
as Herman
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Arno Frey
as Guard
- Frederick Giermann
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Ludwig Hardt
as Clerk
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Will Kaufman
as Customer
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Paul Panzer
as Janitor
- Otto Reichow
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Henry Rowland
as Paul
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Lionel Royce
as Captain
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Norbert Schiller
as Blind Man
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Bob Stevenson
as Gestapo Man
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Roland Varno
as Ernst Demmler
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Ernö Verebes
as Head Waiter
- Henry Victor
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William Von Brincken
as Capt. Bornsdorff
- Hans Von Morhart
- Crane Whitley
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David Hoffman
as Willi
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Walter Bonn
as Lieutenant
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Ernst Hausman
as Rudd
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John Piffle
as Herr Mazel
