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Seventh Cross 
Actors : Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Director : Fred Zinnemann
Studio : MGM (Warner)
by MGM (Warner)
Release Date : 1998-09-01
Publisher : MGM (Warner)
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9786302208931
UPC : 027616234834
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 9 reviews)
List Price : $19.98
Our Price : $49.75
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Seven, they were seven! |
Seven men escaped from Westhofen, but just one of them George Heissler will surmount all the obstacles to find at last, to materialize this dream.
This movie tells us about the multiple difficulties that George will have to feat in order to survive. Struggling and absorbing episode based on real facts in Germany 1936, when dissent was already considered a serious evidence of sedition and betrayal against the totalitarian state.
Impeccable acting of Spencer Tracy and fine direction of Fred Zinnemman.
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Seared into memory |
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I first saw this movie in 1944 or 1945 at the age of 11, and the images of Spencer Tracy (number seven), as well as the suicide of the aerialist number six were seared into my memory forever. My vivid memory gives it a 5-Star. |
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Conquering the Captive Mind |
This is a good WWII vintage movie that makes a sombre and serous attempt to explore the captive mind of Fascism. It stars Spencer Tracy as one of seven concentration camps escapees in Germany. The commandant has sworn that he will nail each of the escapees to the seven crosses he has made. The bulk of the movie focusses on George Heisler (Tracy's character) and his efforts to find someone on the outside he can trust to help him. One by one the crosses are filled and Heisler's search becomes more and more desperate and depressing. No one seems to want to stick their neck out and help him. In time, things reach a crisis point and, in the midst of dispair, hope and trust appear. The movie becomes an uplifting message that transcends that of the typical WWII era movies.
Initially I reacted somewhat negatively to the narrow scope of the movie. After all, making the audience uncomfortable about the intended death of seven concentration camp inmates seemed to miss the point of the horrors that those camps hosted. However, upon reflection, I realized that the better message was that of responsibility rather than that of horror. This film conveys a timelessness in its' statement that is hard not to appreciate. That it has drifted into obscurity is unfortunate. |
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Storm clouds over 1930's Germany |
The immortal Spencer Tracy gives his typical solid performance as German George Heisler in Fred Zinnemann's unusual 1944 wartime drama "The Seventh Cross".
It's 1936 and Germany is embarking on its Aryan philosophy by rounding up undesirables and interring them in concentration camps. An embittered and mentally broken Tracy along with six others has escaped from the Westhof concentration camp. They are planning to seek refuge from the underground in the nearby town of Mainz. Dutiful and ruthless camp commandant Fahrenberg nicely played by George Zucco vows to crucify each captured escapee on crosses erected for that purpose in the camp courtyard.
The others are quickly captured but Tracy relying on the kindness of strangers and a network of sympathetic Germans is shuttled from place to place evading capture. The movie contains excellent performances by Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy as a married couple and former friends of Tracy who are not totally sold on the Nazi philosophy. Agnes Moorehead plays a compassionate theatre costumer who also aids Tracy in his quest.
Tracy eventually winds up in an inn in which Signe Hasso works as a beer maid. She hides him from the Gestapo and they fall into a very brief love, which was a trifle overacted. Tracy is forced to flee to an awaiting ship, which will transport him to Holland.
What makes "The Seventh Cross" so unique is that while it was created in 1944 it is not a typical propagandized wartime movie. The common German people, unsympathetic to the mindless jackbooted philosophies of Hitler are heraldedand portrayed as warm, compassionate people. We sometimes fail to realize that not everyone was swayed by Nazi philosophy and this movie adroitly points that out. |
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They don't make them like this anymore |
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What a pleasant surprise when I first viewed "The Seventh Cross." I thought the movie might be good, but simply "good" does not adequately describe this film. It is superb. The acting is excellent, especially for a movie of its time. But what else would you expect from Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronym, Jessica Tandy, and Agnes Morehead? Even the bit characters played their parts very well. The story is suspenseful and easily keeps your interest. Of the more than 250 movies in my private library, this is one of the best. Every movie lover should watch this film, and if you, like I, enjoy stories built around the World War II era, "The Seventh Cross" is an absolute "must see." They just don't make movies like this anymore. |
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