Details

Release year: 1940

Storyline

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small Alpine village until they are divided by the Nazi regime and a friend is caught up in the turmoil.

Top credits

Directors

Frank Borzage

Writers

Cast

Margaret Sullavan — Freya Roth
James Stewart — Martin Breitner
Robert Young — Fritz Marberg
Frank Morgan — Professor Viktor Roth

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Did you know

• Nazi leader Adolf Hitler banned this film from release in Germany because of its strong anti-Nazi sentiments. In addition, all MGM films from that point until the end of the war also were banned in Germany because the studio made this one.

• When this movie was made, America was not part of World War II. Most of the heads of the major studios in Hollywood were for American involvement in the war. This movie is one of a number made during the late 1930s and early 1940s that represented this belief. These films include A Yank in the RAF (1941), Man Hunt (1941), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) and Sergeant York (1941).

• At the start, Professor Roth (Frank Morgan) is celebrating his 60th birthday. In fact, when Morgan filmed that scene, he was closer to his 50th birthday and, unfortunately, did not live to see his 60th. (He was born June 1, 1890, and died September 18, 1949.)