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Dawn
Also known as Enfermeira Mártir in Brazil; as Edith Cavell: Englannin valkoinen sisar in Finland; as Akatoki in Japan; and as Miss Edith Cavell in Portugal
(1928) England
B&W : Eight reels / 7300 feet
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Cast: Sybil Thorndike [Nurse Edith Cavell], Madame Ada Bodart [herself], Gordon Craig [Philippe Bodart], Marie Ault [Madame Rappard], Mickey Brantford [Jacques Rappard], Mary Brough [Madame Pitou], Richard Worth [Jean Pitou, the bargekeeper], Colin Bell [Widow Deveaux], Dacia Deane [Madame Deveaux’s daughter], Cecil Barry [Colonel Schultz], Frank Perfitt [General von Zauberzweig], Haddon Mason [German A.P.M.], Maurice Braddell [a British airman], Edward O’Neill [the Lutheran priest], Griffith Humphreys [the president of the court martial], Edward Sorley [a German soldier], Chili Bouchier, Lionel d’Aragon, Boris Ranevsky
Herbert Wilcox Productions production for British and Dominions Film Corporation; distributed by Woolf & Freedman Film Service, Limited. / Produced by Herbert Wilcox. Scenario by Robert Cullen, from the adaptation by Herbert Wilcox of a screen story by Reginald Berkeley. Art direction by Clifford Pember. Cinematography by Bernard Knowles. / Premiered 1928 at the London Palladium in London, England. Released 1 March 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / From the true story of British nurse Edith Cavell who was shot in 1915 as a spy by the Germans in Brussels. The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1928. The film was released in Ireland on 11 January 1929. The film was released in Japan on 1 September 1931. The film was released in Finland on 4 January 1932. / Silent film.
Drama: Espionage.
Survival status: Print exists in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Espionage: Spies
Listing updated: 10 September 2017.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.5091; Perry-British pp. 58, 356; Robertson-British p. 186 : Website-IMDb.
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