A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her..

You should probably watch Dawn if you have any interest in how movies used to handle real, heavy history before everything became a CGI mess. It is a silent film from 1928 about Nurse Edith Cavell. If you need things to blow up every ten minutes, go watch The Gasoline Buckaroo instead. This one is for when you're in ...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Herbert Wilcox

William Parke
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"You should probably watch Dawn if you have any interest in how movies used to handle real, heavy history before everything became a CGI mess. It is a silent film from 1928 about Nurse Edith Cavell. If you need things to blow up every ten minutes, go watch The Gasoline Buckaroo instead. This one is for when you're in the mood to actually sit still and feel something uncomfortable. The movie stars Sybil Thorndike as the nurse. She has this way of looking at the camera that feels like she’s see..."
Lionel d'Aragon
Reginald Berkeley, Herbert Wilcox, Robert Cullen
United Kingdom

