RFF: None Shall Escape

Part of The Resistance Film Festival

“Shockingly prescient … this is strong meat… Retains a lot of punch now — as well as, dismayingly, no lack of relevance.” Dennis Harvey, Screen Grabs- 48 Hills

Introduction by festival curator & former Roxie programmer, Elliot Lavine!

A powerful, speculative drama (produced at the height of World War II) that foresaw the defeat of the Nazis and what a Nuremberg-like trial might look like. This was the only Hollywood film made during the War to deal directly with the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities against Polish Jews. The film unfolds in a series of escalating flashbacks focusing on the individual horrific war crimes of one specific defendant, who now stands before a tribunal facing his accusers. A low-budget B picture that fearlessly depicts a world gone mad. Starring Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Shirley Mills. Screenplay by Lester Cole. Photographed by Lee Garmes. Directed by Andre DeToth. In B&W. 85 mins. 1944.