Edge of Darkness
1943 · 119 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 3,204 VOTES · DIR. Lewis Milestone
Overview
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,398 lines
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00:01:29 It's 4:00.
00:08:59 Against them, our German garrison of 150 men...
00:12:15 Petersen, the butcher.
00:16:33 Gunnar, I can't walk anymore.
00:22:34 You're all right now, Hammer.
00:26:04 I was afraid that if anything happened to you, l...
00:29:27 Poor father.
00:32:59 I have been lenient, heretofore.
00:36:37 That's another question.
00:39:41 What can I say to you? How can I advise you?
00:43:43 If I don't, she will. She's a very educated girl.
00:48:08 Was he a Pole or a Norwegian? What was his business there?
00:52:21 Letter for Hauptmann Koenig from Berlin.
00:56:06 Now, before your boat leaves?
01:02:35 I might have been a German guard.
01:06:22 Does no one here remember Stoksund?
01:10:56 - Well, you see that hole? - Yeah.
01:14:33 "In the name of the German army high command, I decree...
01:18:52 They must be taught to obey. That's an order.
01:27:58 Because of it, I met you.
01:32:23 Don't you think it'd be a good idea for you to turn the radio on?
01:37:31 But the life of one Norwegian is not payment enough...
01:45:02 If you want a ride to England with women and children, come.
01:49:38 The crossfire from the machine guns I've placed on our flanks must not fail.