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- 1 win total

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Sybil Thorndike

Nurse Edith Cavell

Ada Bodart

Self
(as Madame Ada Bodart)

Gordon Craig

Philippe Bodart

Marie Ault

Mme. Rappard

Mickey Brantford

Jacques Rappard

Mary Brough

Mme. Pitou

Richard Worth

Jean Pitou - Bargekeeper

Colin Bell

Widow Deveaux

Dacia Deane

Mme. Deveaux's Daughter

Cecil Barry

Col. Schultz

Frank Perfitt

Gen. von Zauberzweig

Haddon Mason

German A.P.M.

Maurice Braddell

British Airman

Edward O'Neill

Lutheran Priest

Griffith Humphreys

President of the Court Martial

Edward Sorley

German Soldier

Chili Bouchier

Undetermined Role
(uncredited)

Lionel d'Aragon

Undetermined Role
(uncredited)

Director
- Herbert Wilcox
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Trivia
A copy of this film survives at the British Film Institute.

Quotes
Nurse Edith Cavell: I have no fear nor shrinking. I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Connections
Version of Nurse and Martyr (1915)

Sybil Thorndike's depiction of heroic WWI nurse Edith Cavell is so reserved that it's sometimes difficult to perceive her character's compassion in Herbert Wilcox's biopic. Probably the only film in history in which the heroes discuss their plans for smuggling escaped POWs out of the country while doing their knitting. Wilcox remade the film 10 years later with his wife Anna Neagle in Thorndike's role.