In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.
Cast
Spencer Tracy
George Heisler
Signe Hasso
Toni
Hume Cronyn
Paul Roeder
Jessica Tandy
Liesel Roeder
Agnes Moorehead
Madame Marelli
Herbert Rudley
Franz Marnet
Felix Bressart
Poldi Schlamm
Ray Collins
Wallau
Alexander Granach
Zillich
Katherine Locke
Frau Hedy Sauer
George Macready
Bruno Sauer
Paul Guilfoyle
Fiedler
Steven Geray
Dr. Loewenstein
Kurt Katch
Leo Hermann
Kaaren Verne
Leni (as Karen Verne)
Konstantin Shayne
Fuellgrabe
George Suzanne
Bellani
John Wengraf
Overkamp
George Zucco
Fahrenburg
Steven Muller
Hellwig
Eily Malyon
Fraulein Bachmann
Hugh Beaumont
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Charles Arnt
Herr Binder (uncredited)
Robert Blake
Small Boy (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
Pelzer (uncredited)
William Challee
Fischer (uncredited)
Russell Custer
Prisoner at Concentration Camp (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Aldinger (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Man on Street (uncredited)
Jimmy Hawkins
Paul and Liesel Roeder's Son (uncredited)
Leon Tyler
Fritz / Hitler Youth (uncredited)
Crew
Fred Zinnemann
Director
Helen Deutsch
Screenplay
Anna Seghers
Novel
Thomas Richards
Editor
Karl Freund
Director of Photography
Horace Hough
Assistant Director
Pandro S. Berman
Producer
James Burbridge
Sound
Roy Webb
Original Music Composer
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Leonid Vasian
Art Direction
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