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Nurse Edith Cavell

1939 film by Herbert Wilcox
Movie film Q7070194

Facts

21 properties
Instance of
film
Director
Herbert Wilcox[1]
Genre
drama film, biographical film[4][5]
Publication date
1939[27]
Screenwriter
Michael Hogan[2]
Based on
Edith Cavell[6]
Producer
Herbert Wilcox[21]
Nominated for
Academy Award for Best Original Score[31]
Duration
+98[34]
Cast member
Anna Neagle, Bert Roach, Edna May Oliver, Frank Reicher, Fritz Leiber, George Sanders, Gilbert Emery, Gustav von Seyffertitz, H. B. Warner, Henry Brandon, Leo Reuss, Martin Kosleck, May Robson, Robert Coote, ZaSu Pitts, Mary Howard de Liagre, William Edmunds[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
Color
black-and-white[25]
Composer
Anthony Collins[3]
Country of origin
United States[26]
Different from
Nurse Edith Cavell[33]
Director of photography
Joseph H. August, Freddie Young[22][23]
Distributed by
RKO Pictures[28]
Film editor
Elmo Williams[30]
Narrative location
Belgium[29]
Original language of film or TV show
English[24]
P14724
8660376[35]
Title
Nurse Edith Cavell[32]
🏷️ Also known as
en Nurse Edith Cavell es The Life of Edith Cavell fr Edith Cavell it La storia di Edith Cavell ja 看護師イーディス・キャヴェル nl Zuster Edith Cavell sv I döden för flyktingar zh 伊迪丝·卡维尔护士 zh 艾迪丝·卡维尔护士 zh 艾迪斯·卡维尔护士 zh-hans 艾迪斯·卡维尔护士 zh-hant 艾迪斯·卡維爾護士 zh-hant 艾迪絲·卡維爾護士
🔖 Identifiers · 35
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) 1.jpg ↗
AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
4629
AMPAS collections film ID
W079708
Academy Awards Database film ID
1296
AllMovie title ID
v35825
Apple TV movie ID
umc.cmc.5rdjoriy83rk1yv7ul09983yd
Cinema Context ID
F015058
Douban film ID
5071142
EIDR content ID
10.5240/9E9D-5B7E-75B8-8705-0E27-D
ElFilm film ID
31676
FilmAffinity film ID
410613
FilmVandaag ID
film/52795
Show all 35 identifiers +23
Filmová databáze film ID
168787
Filmportal ID
00ee3a8eb7fc44f095bbbaa125408664
Freebase ID
/m/0bw3rdw
Hoopla title ID
11091796
IMDb ID
tt0031737
Internet Archive ID
NurseEdithCavell
Kinobox film ID
244849
Kinopoisk film ID
160238
LUMIERE film ID
186178
Letterboxd film ID
nurse-edith-cavell
MYmovies audiovisual work ID
24021
Movie Review Query Engine ID
nurse-edith-cavell-m100051483
MovieMeter film ID
48773
Moviepilot.de film ID
nurse-edith-cavell
OFDb film ID
36248
Plex media key
5d776a4f23d5a3001f5031eb
Rotten Tomatoes ID
m/nurse_edith_cavell
Swedish Film Database ID
28983
TMDB movie ID
218326
TheTVDB movie ID
48169
Trakt.tv ID
movies/nurse-edith-cavell-1939
Trakt.tv film ID
134517
ČSFD film ID
96711

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🔗 Connections
Cast member 17
George Sanders, May Robson, Edna May Oliver, ZaSu Pitts, Anna Neagle, H. B. Warner, Bert Roach, Frank Reicher +9 more
Genre 2
drama film, biographical film
Based on 1
Edith Cavell
Color 1
black-and-white
Composer 1
Anthony Collins
Country of origin 1
United States
Director 1
Herbert Wilcox
Director of photography 1
Joseph H. August
Distributed by 1
RKO Pictures
Film editor 1
Elmo Williams
Instance of 1
film
Narrative location 1
Belgium
Nominated for 1
Academy Award for Best Original Score
Original language of film or TV show 1
English
Producer 1
Herbert Wilcox
Screenwriter 1
Michael Hogan
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Related Entities

Belgium Edith Cavell film George Sanders May Robson RKO Pictures United States

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  1. 3d ago · Rémi sim · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14724 → 8660376
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  2. 21d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 9
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'cy', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'pt', 'sh']
    AMPAS collections film ID → W079708
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  3. 10w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Color → black-and-white
    Duration → {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+98'}
    Instance of → film
    Screenwriter → Michael Hogan
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