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Pastor Hall

  • 7.2 /10

  • 7

Plot

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

Cast

Wilfrid Lawson as Pastor Frederick Hall
Wilfrid Lawson

as Pastor Frederick Hall

Nova Pilbeam as Christine Hall
Nova Pilbeam

as Christine Hall

Seymour Hicks as General von Grotjahn
Seymour Hicks

as General von Grotjahn

Marius Goring as Fritz Gerte
Marius Goring

as Fritz Gerte

Brian Worth as Werner von Grotjahn
Brian Worth

as Werner von Grotjahn

Percy Walsh as Herr Veit
Percy Walsh

as Herr Veit

Lina Barrie as Lina Veit
Lina Barrie

as Lina Veit

Eliot Makeham as Pippermann
Eliot Makeham

as Pippermann

Peter Cotes as Erwin Kohn
Peter Cotes

as Erwin Kohn

Edmund Willard as Freundlich
Edmund Willard

as Freundlich

Movie Facts

Rated

  • N/A

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • May 28, 1940

Production Companies

  • Charter Film Productions

Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.58 hrs

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Reviews

This is quite a gruelling film to watch, this one. Wilfrid Lawson is the eponymous minister who lived in a small German village in the 1930s as the Nazi party started on it's inevitable route to power. A decent man, he tried to resist the increasingly anti-semitic aspirations of the Party but with the arrival of some stormtroopers under the command of the malevolent, but cunning, "Gerte" (Marius …