The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
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Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge
Ann Sheridan as Karen Stensgard
Walter Huston as Dr. Martin Stensgard
Helmut Dantine as Captain Koenig
Ruth Gordon as Anna Stensgard
Judith Anderson as Gerd Bjarnesen
Roman Bohnen as Lars Malken
Monte Blue as Jens Petersen
Virginia Christine as Hulda (Stensgard maid)
Morris Carnovsky as Sixtus Andresen
Charles Dingle as Kaspar Torgerson
Richard Fraser as Pastor Aalesen
Art Smith as Knut Osterholm
Nancy Coleman as Katja, Koenig's woman
John Beal as Johann Stensgard
Frank Wilcox as Jensen, the shoemaker
Henry Brandon as Major Ruck
Tom Fadden as Hammer
Francis Pierlot as Mortensen, the tailor
Kurt Katch as German Landing Party Captain
Tonio Selwart as German Corporal Paul
Louis V. Arco as German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Nora Bush as Townswoman (uncredited)
Glen Cavender as Cannery Worker (uncredited)
Albert Cavens as Soldier (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell as Townsman (uncredited)
Tom Coleman as Townsman (uncredited)
Victor Cox as Townsman (uncredited)
William Edmunds as Elderly Sailor (uncredited)
Frederick Giermann as German Pilot (uncredited)
Kit Guard as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
Al Haskell as Townsman (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp as Soldier (uncredited)
Kurt Kreuger as German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Ann Kunde as Townswoman (uncredited)
Walt La Rue as Village Patriot (uncredited)
Rolf Lindau as German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Dudley Field Malone as Winston Churchcill (voice) (uncredited)
Torben Meyer as Cannery Clerk (uncredited)
Peter Michael as German Soldier (uncredited)
Robert Milasch as Townsman (uncredited)
Ernesto Molinari as Soldier (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard as Townsman in Church (uncredited)
John Rice as Townsman (uncredited)
Henry Rowland as Helmut (uncredited)
John Roy as Soldier (uncredited)
Allen D. Sewall as Townsman (uncredited)
Carl Sklover as Soldier (uncredited)
Cap Somers as Soldier (uncredited)
Ray Spiker as Townsman (uncredited)
William Sundholm as Townsman (uncredited)
Helene Thimig as Mrs. Frida Malken (uncredited)
Dorothy Tree as Solveig Brategaard (uncredited)
Peter van Eyck as German Soldier (uncredited)
Roland Varno as German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Lottie Williams as Mrs. Mortensen (uncredited)
William Yetter Sr. as German Officer (uncredited)
Jack Young as Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice) (uncredited)
Paul Kruger as
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