The Woman the Germans Shot
Cast & Crew
John G. Adolfi
Julia Arthur
Creighton Hale
Thomas Brooks
George Le Guere
William H. Tooker
Film Details
Synopsis
George Brooks is in love with Edith Cavell but joins the army when he learns that she plans to devote her life to caring for the sick. Years later, with the outbreak of World War I, Edith serves as a Red Cross nurse in Belgium. She remains in the small town after its invasion by the Germans and tends George's wounded son Frank. Edith is arrested by the Germans for trying to help Frank escape and, despite the efforts of the American Minister in Belgium to win her freedom, finally executed.
Director
John G. Adolfi
Cast
Julia Arthur
Creighton Hale
Thomas Brooks
George Le Guere
William H. Tooker
J. W. Johnston
Paul Panzer
Joyce Fair
George Majeroni
Sara Alexander
Amy Dennis
Fred Melville
Marty Faust
George Dupree
Fred Kalgren
Louis Sturz
Crew
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This was the first film of Julia Arthur. The film had its premiere at the Strand Theatre in New York on October 27, 1918, either as The Woman the Germans Shot or Edith Cavell. Select Pictures Corp. subsequently released the film as The Cavell Case, the title under which the film was copyrighted. Among the films based on the Cavell case are: the 1916 Australian film The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell, directed by C. Post; another 1916 Australian film, Nurse Cavell, directed by W. J. Lincoln; the 1928 British film Dawn, starring Sybil Thorndike and directed by Herbert Wilcox; and the 1939 RKO release Nurse Edith Cavell, starring Anna Neagle and directed by Wilcox.
