Overview
Nurse Edith Cavell is a 1939 American film directed by British director Herbert Wilcox about Edith Cavell.
The film was nominated at the 1939 Oscars for Best Original Score.
Plot
The story follows the broadly true story of Edith Cavell who went to German-occupied Brussels after the onset of the First World War.
Edith hides the young Frenchman Jean Rappard, but is suspected of this and her hospital is inspected by German troops at regular intervals. Jean is put on a canal barge and despite being searched at the border escapes successfully.
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