Norway, 1942. The village of Trollness lives at the time of German occupation for two years now. But resistance is growing ... Involved in the fight against the invader, Gunnar Broggi, a fisherman, and his fiancee, Karen Stensgard, should exercise caution on the eve of a drop shipment of arms from England ...
Released in the heart of the Second World War, Edge of Darkness is not in half measures in terms of expressing a vindictive and exalted call to fight against the Nazi enemy. The story then plunges us into the drama of a small Norwegian coastal village under the yoke of German occupation of ruling with an iron hand on the small community. Under the apparent submission, however slowly rising fury against the invader and the screenplay (by Robert Rossen who adapts a novel by William Woods) very cleverly explores the conflicting emotions behind the Norwegian. National pride and hatred of the Nazis alongside therefore fear and cowardice very ordinary and understandable if not outright collaboration with an odious character as an entrepreneur. Its different forms is emerging through a range of diverse characters and psychology content searched despite the obvious propaganda film.
Errol Flynn is masterful charisma as a leader of the rebellion and even if it is clearly the hero melts into the skin of an ordinary fisherman member of this community. A modest and nuanced performance in which he excels because it does not stock mechanical inappropriately as Sabotage in Berlin previously mentioned. The scene or to avenge the attack on Ann Sheridan has been the victim is severely reduced due to the community is so wonderfully strong, especially when the camera scrolls over the faces all the more determined. Walter Huston as a doctor hesitated and then won the war fever is also fascinating, Ann Sheridan more one-dimensional fierce resistance also offers a solid performance but the whole cast is wonderful. Besides the Nazi camp offers the most ambiguous figures with John Beal lost who joined the German by weakness and will never be able to repair his error, Nancy Coleman as Polish submitted at the pleasure of Koenig camped with a perfect sadism by Helmut Dantine. 
The film offers a slow rise dramatically when the village awaiting delivery of arms by the English for a massive attack to undergo all the torments. The narrative construction also invited to the black tone as the story opens with the arrival of a German army in the village devastated and littered with corpses leaving a flashback we discover the events. The heroes we are also presented from the point of having enemies when the Nazis converse on the most disrupting the community. The atmosphere suffers when a voltage of all the moments with this pervasive threat that can happen at any time. Having managed to really dedicate ourselves to this small community, Milestone does make the misfortunes and sufferings harder to which is the greatest asset of the film, emotional strength that goes beyond the aspect of propaganda and bellicose. Nazi atrocities are thus more and more outrageous is that humiliation is a sober and filming the rape trauma where the terrible spray grazing an old intellectual who courageously dare to oppose the theft of his house. 
Conclusion war raging on the reaction of the village is a true outlet caused a massive audience empathy as Milestone was able to play this expectation. The Last Stand is one of the fiercest seen in a war movie this time, heroic and sacrificial moments overexcited, mass destruction in the whole mess with a rabies shot and a phenomenal virtuosity by Milestone (this approach when Flynn Nazi HQ in carts at full gallop and jump to throw a grenade grand!). This is very reminiscent Went the day well British film studio Ealing (Treaty in July on the blog) just as angry when an English village rose against underground Nazi invasion. Edge of Darkness is as hard and exciting in his ode to the struggle against tyranny, ending on a hopeful note, but just as t goes to war. Great war movie and a passing score dark and fabulous Frank Waxman especially during the final assault which he adorned with funeral to boost Wagner. Released in Region 1 DVD from Warner in the box Errol Flynn already mentioned above.
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