The Seventh Cross (1944)

Set in 1936 Germany. After escaping from a concentration camp, a man (Spencer Tracy) makes his way through a hostile environment, not knowing who to trust. His goal is to contact the German underground who will facilitate his exit from the country. Based on the novel by Anna Seghers and directed by Fred Zinnemann (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY). This is an unusual film with a nicely subdued performance by Tracy whose dialogue is at a minimum. It's one of the very few Hollywood films of the era that dealt with the existence of concentration camps in Germany. The movie pushes the idea that not all the German people were bad and that there were good people who helped fight the Nazis in their own way. We're never told what Tracy's crime was that put him in a concentration camp but the book makes it clear that it was his Communist affiliation. The excellent supporting cast includes Hume Cronyn (in an Oscar nominated performance), Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Signe Hasso, Ray Collins, George Macready, Kaaren Verne, Herbert Rudley, George Zucco, Eily Malyon and Katherine Locke.