None Shall Escape

None Shall Escape (1944)

NAZIS! QUISLINGS! WOMEN KILLERS! FIRST COMPLETE STORY OF THE TRIAL OF THE NAZI WAR CRIMINALS!

Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.

Date of release
1944-02-03
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
André de Toth

Casting

Interesting facts

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None Shall Escape is a 1944 war film. Even though the film was made during World War II, the setting is a post-war Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. Alexander Knox plays Wilhelm Grimm, a Nazi officer who is on trial, and the story unfolds through the eyes of several witnesses, including a Catholic priest, Father Warecki, Grimm's brother Karl and Marja Pacierkowski, a woman to whom he was once engaged.

Production

Columbia Pictures' in-house producer Sam Bischoff got the idea to make a film about a war crime trial after having heard President Franklin D. Roosevelt declare on August 21, 1942 that the Allies were collecting information about the Nazi leaders responsible for war atrocities, in order to bring them to court after the war. (The prosecution of war criminals was ratified by the Allies in the Moscow Declarations in 1943).

Production began August 31, 1943 and finished October 26, 1943 (i.e. more than eighteen months before the war in Europe ended.) Director Andre de Toth had seen the war up close already in 1939. He was filming newsreels in Hungary when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and was immediately sent to cover the fighting on the German-Polish front.

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