I Escaped from the Gestapo

I Escaped from the Gestapo is a 1943 film from King Brothers Productions, directed by Harold Young about a forger forced to work for Nazi spies. It stars Dean Jagger, Mary Brian and John Carradine.^[1][2]

I Escaped from the Gestapo
Directed by	Harold Young
Written by	Henry Blankfort Wallace Sullivan
Produced by	Charles King Maurice King
Starring	Dean Jagger Mary Brian John Carradine
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan
Edited by	S. K. Winston
Music by	David Chudnow W. Franke Harling
Production company	King Brothers Productions
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release date	14 May 1943 (1943-05-14)
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The film was also known as No Escape and Edmund Lowe was meant to star, and Frances Farmer also, in an uncredited role, and George McFarland of the Our Gang fame as Billy.^[3] Frances Farmer started filming but was accused of assaulting a hairdresser, and forced to leave the set.

Plot

Torgut Lane is a forger who is busted out of prison but then forced to work for Nazi spies in the U.S. printing counterfeit bills, to undermine the war effort. He ultimately finds a way to report their activities, by engraving a telling give-away on the plate to tip off the FBI.

Cast

• Dean Jagger as Torgut Lane
• John Carradine as Fritz Martin - Gestapo Agent
• Mary Brian as Helen
• William Henry as Gordon - Gestapo Agent (as Bill Henry)
• Sidney Blackmer as Bergen
• Ian Keith as Gerard
• Anthony Warde as Lokin (as Anthony Ward)
• Edward Keane as Domack - Head of Gestapo Gang
• William Marshall as Lunt (as Billy Marshall)
• Norman Willis as FBI Chief Rodt
• Peter Dunne as Olin
• George McFarland as Billy
• Charles Wagenheim as Hart

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:

• Frances Farmer as (montage sequence) (uncredited)

References

1. "I escaped from the Gestapo".
2. "DVD REVIEW: "I ESCAPED FROM THE GESTAPO" (1943) STARRING DEAN JAGGER AND JOHN CARRADINE – Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s". Retrieved January 1, 2016.
3. "Of Local Origin". New York Times. October 10, 1942. p. 11.

External links

• I Escaped from the Gestapo at IMDb
• I Escaped from the Gestapo at the TCM Movie Database
• I Escaped from the Gestapo at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films