I Escaped from the Gestapo

I Escaped from the Gestapo
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Directed by	Harold Young
Written by	Henry Blankfort
Produced by	Charles King ; Maurice King
Starring	Victor Jory ; Pamela Blake ; Veda Ann Borg
Production; company	King Brothers Productions
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures
Release date	14 May 1943
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3] 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[]

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

External links[]

I Escaped from the Gestapo at IMDb

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[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.

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