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I Escaped from the Gestapo
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Wikipedia article
'I Escaped from the Gestapo' is a 1943 film from King Brothers Productions, directed from Harold Young about a forger forced to work for Nazi spies. It stars Dean Jagger, Mary Brian and John Carradine.
The film was also known as 'No Escape' and Edmund Lowe was meant to star, and Frances Farmer also in a uncredited role, and George McFarland of the Our Gang fame as Billy. Frances Farmer started filming but was accused of assaulting a hairdresser, and forced to leave the set.
Plot
Torgut Lane (Dean Jagger) 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
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