Underground (1941)
- Starring:
- Jeffrey Lynn, Philip Dorn, (more)
- Director(s):
- Vincent Sherman
- Category:
- War
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My RatingSynopsis of Underground
Underground is an average Warner Bros. suspenser, given a boost by its unrelenting portrayal of Nazis as verminous scum--several months before America's entry into World War II. Jeffrey Lynn plays an impressionable young European who is intoxicated by the "glories" of National Socialism. Lynn's brother, Philip Dorn, is on the opposite side of the fence as an announcer for an underground Resistance radio station. At first scornful of his brother's activities, Lynn soon learns that Hitler isn't the saint he believed him to be--especially after several of his friends are liquidated by the Gestapo. Lynn belatedly joins his brother's cause and, at the cost of his own life, helps the Resistance thwart a band of fifth columnists. Underground is a solid piece of film craftsmanship, lacking only the big star names that would have made it a box-office hit. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 95 mins
Complete Cast of Underground
- Jeffrey Lynn - Kurt Franken
- Kaaren Verne - Sylvia Helmuth
- Frank Reicher - Prof. Baumer
- Martin Kosleck - Heller
- Ilka Gruning - Frau Kranken
- Ludwig Stossel - Herr Muller
- Wolfgang Zilzer - Hoffman
- Lotte Palfi - Greta Rolf
- Louis Arco - Otto
- Rudolph Anders
- William Von Brincken - Capt. Bornsdorff
- Erno Verebes - Head Waiter
- Bob Stevenson - Gestapo Man
- Lionel Royce - Captain
- Otto Reichow
- Ernst Hausman - Rudd
- David Hoffman - Willi
- Hans Von Morhart
- Ludwig Hardt - Clerk
- Frederick Giermann
- Glen Cavender - Man
- Philip Dorn - Eric Franken
- Mona Maris - Fraulein Gessner
- Peter Whitney - Alex
- Erwin Kalser - Dr. Franken
- Egon Brecher - Herr Director
- Hans Schumm - Heller's Aide
- Henry Brandon - Rolf
- Lisa Golm - Ella
- Roland Drew - Gestapo
- Paul Panzer - Janitor
- Henry Victor
- Roland Varno - Ernst Demmler
- Norbert Schiller - Blind Man
- Henry Rowland - Paul
- John Piffle - Herr Mazel
- Walter Bonn - Lieutenant
- Crane Whitley
- Will Kaufman - Customer
- Arno Frey - Guard
- Hans Conried - Herman
- Edith Angold - Cashier
- Director(s):
- Vincent Sherman
- Writer(s):
- Charles Grayson
- Producer(s):
- Jack L. Warner, William Jacobs, Hal B. Wallis
- Categories:
- War
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