

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Acting
Donald Calthrop's crumbling dignity as Mendel.
Direction
Dupont squeezes claustrophobia from every shadow.
Writing
Pre-Code willingness to go absolutely feral emotionally.

Director
E.A. Dupont
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of several early sound films grappling with WWI's psychological wreckage before the Hays Code sanitized everything.
E.A. Dupont fled Germany for Britain in 1933; this pre-echo of Jewish persecution feels eerily prophetic in retrospect.