Pastor Hall (1940)
IT Can HAPPEN HERE!
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
- Date of release
- 1940-05-28
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Roy Boulting
Casting
- Wilfrid Lawson — Pastor Frederick Hall
- Nova Pilbeam — Christine Hall
- Seymour Hicks — General von Grotjahn
- Marius Goring — Fritz Gerte
- Brian Worth — Werner von Grotjahn
- Percy Walsh — Herr Veit
- Lina Barrie — Lina Veit
- Eliot Makeham — Pippermann
- Peter Cotes — Erwin Kohn
- Edmund Willard — Freundlich
- Hay Petrie — Nazi Pastor
- Bernard Miles — Heinrich Degan
Interesting facts
Pastor Hall is a 1940 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Marius Goring, Seymour Hicks and Bernard Miles. It was written by Leslie Arliss, Anna Reiner, Haworth Bromley, John Boulting, Roy Boulting and Miles Malleson based on the play of the same title by German author Ernst Toller.
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