The Seventh Cross 07/28/26

For his third feature film Fred Zinnemann scored big with a grim story of Nazi terror that finally took note of the Concentration Camps, if not the full immensity of their horror. Spencer Tracy’s everyman fugitive one of seven escapees, and the people he meets and things he sees would send any war industry worker back to the assembly line determined to work harder. The movie is artful, even elegant, and it doesn’t trivialize its subject. The ensemble cast includes Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Herbert Rudley, George Macready and Kaaren Verne. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.
07/28/26