Spencer Tracy
George Heisler
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The Seventh Cross is a 1944 American drama film, set in Nazi Germany, starring Spencer Tracy as a prisoner who escaped from a concentration camp. The story chronicles how he interacts with ordinary Germans, and gradually sheds his cynical view of humanity.
With Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy. In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Fred Zinnemann
- 1944-07-24
Synopsis. In the fall of 1936, seven prisoners from a Westhofen, Germany, concentration camp escape into the night: wise Ernst Wallau; schoolteacher Pelzer; Bellani, a once-renowned acrobat; Aldinger, an old farmer; Jewish grocery clerk Beutler; Fuellgrabe, a novelist; and rugged George Heisler, the victim of repeated torture.
- Fred Zinnemann, Horace Hough
- Spencer Tracy
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When seven German prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp manage to escape, the Gestapo embarks on a mission to recapture and crucify all of the fugitives. Only George Heisler (Spencer Tracy ...
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- Spencer Tracy
- Fred Zinnemann
- Mystery & Thriller
Sep 10, 2012 · Film. Time Out says. With Tracy heading the cast and a host of great character actors in support, it's hardly surprising that the performances are the most memorable aspect of Zinnemann's first...
The Seventh Cross. (1944) Directed by Fred Zinnemann. An unusual European subject for Tracy, this film tells the story of anti-Fascist George Heisler, who escapes a Nazi Concentration camp and must carefully plot escape from Germany.
