Uncertain Glory

Director: Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh

Overview

A notorious rake and criminal (terrified of the guillotine) offers to sacrifice his own life to a Nazi firing squad to ensure the release of 100 hostages. The events leading up to this moment comprise the bulk of the film.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/24/2018
UPC:	0888574655815
Original Release:	1944
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00

Special Features

Warner Night at the Movies 1944 Short Subjects Gallery: Vintage Newsreel; Musical Short United States Coast Guard Band; Classic Cartoons Brother Brat and Russian Rhapsody; Trailers of Uncertain Glory and 1944's The Mask of Dimitrios

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Errol Flynn	Jean Picard / Emil DuPont
Paul Lukas	Inspector Marcel Bonet
Jean Sullivan	Marianne
Faye Emerson	Louise
Lucile Watson	Mme. Maret
James Flavin	Captain
Douglas Dumbrille	Police Commissioner
Dennis Hoey	Father Le Clerc
Sheldon Leonard	Henri Duval
Odette Myrtil	Mme. Bonet
Francis Pierlot	Prison Priest
Wallis Clark	Razeau
Victor Kilian	Latour
Ivan Triesault	Saboteur
Albert Van Antwerp	Vitrac
Art Smith	Warden
Carl Harbaugh	Innkeeper
Mary Servoss	Drover's Wife
Charles La Torre	Restaurant Keeper
Pedro de Cordoba	Executioner
Bobby Walberg	Pierre Bonet
Erskine Sanford	Drover
Felix Basch	German Officer
Joel Friedkin	Veterinary
Creighton Hale	Prison Secretary
Joyce Tucker	Michele Bonet
Paul Panzer	Train Guard
Hans Schumm	Gestapo Agent
Zina Torchina	Peasant Girl
Sarah Padden	Peasant Woman on Bus
Trevor Bardette	Passengers on Train
Michael Mark	Passengers on Train
Adolph Deutsch	Composer

Technical Credits

Laslo Vadnay

Max Brand

Raoul Walsh	Director
Laslo Vadnay	Screenwriter
Max Brand	Screenwriter
Robert Buckner	Producer
Roy Davidson	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

Director Raoul Walsh reportedly dismissed Uncertain Glory as a "quickie." Walsh may have thought so but he certainly doesn't seem to have treated the material lightly. Yes, Errol Flynn's transformation from callous thief and murderer to nobly giving his life for France may seem superficial, as many modern reviewers have suggested, but Uncertain Glory should be considered for what it was: wartime propaganda. France, at least Free France, was a beleaguered ally, "old and battered but never giving up," as one character in the film puts it, and Flynn's reformed criminal and Paul Lukas' law-and-order conservative policeman spoke directly to both the American home front and the French émigrés in London and Washington. The chemistry between the two remains the center of a thrilling narrative that holds up surprisingly well, and instead of dismissed it as a "quickie," Uncertain Glory deserves to be much better known today than is the case.