So Ends Our Night (1941)

Set in 1937 as Hitler's rise to power in Germany caused many to flee to neighboring countries as they anticipate the horrors that will come. But many of them are stateless refugees without passports who live in fear of being deported back to Germany if they are caught. Based on the novel FLOTSAM by Erich Maria Remarque, the film focuses on three refugees: an escapee (Fredric March) from a concentration camp whose wife (Frances Dee) is still in Germany, a young boy (Glenn Ford) deprived of his German citizenship for being half Jewish and a Jewish girl (Margaret Sullavan) denounced by her Aryan fiance. Directed by John Cromwell (OF HUMAN BONDAGE), this film deserves to be better known (it only has 275 votes on the IMDb). It's one of the first pre-WWII Hollywood films to tackle Nazism head on. While it occasionally dips into sentimentality, for the most part it's a powerful portrait of displaced refugees living in fear as the long arms of the Third Reich extends itself through out Europe. It contains one of March's best performances and an early Glenn Ford performance that indicated he would soon become a major star. Sullavan is lovely but her role isn't that interesting but the film could have used more of Frances Dee. With Erich von Stroheim, Anna Sten, Leonid Kinskey and Sig Ruman.