The Road Back (1937)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Ernst

      John King

    • Ludwig

      Richard Cromwell

    • Tjaden

      Slim Summerville

    • Albert Von Hagen

      Maurice Murphy

    • Willy

      Andy Devine

    • Weil

      Larry Blake

    • Von Hagen

      John Emery

    • Bethke

      Henry Hunter

    • Wessling

      Noah Beery Jr

    • Geisicke

      Gene Garrick

    • Lucie

      Barbara Read

    • Ernst's mother

      Spring Byington

    • Ernst's father

      Frank Reicher

    • Ernst's sister

      Marilyn Harris

    • Elsa

      Jean Rouverol

    • mayor

      Etienne Girardot

    • Uncle Rudolph

      Charles Halton

    • Ernst's aunt

      Laura Hope Crews

    • Angelina

      Louise Fazenda

    • judge

      Robert Warwick

    • defense attorney

      Samuel S. Hinds

    • Heinrich

      Arthur Hohl

    • Bartscher

      William B. Davidson

    • prosecutor

      Lionel Atwill

    • Mr Markheim

      Al Shean

    • Willy's mother

      Clara Blandick

    • dinner party member

      Robert Greig

    • dinner party member

      Maidel Turner

    • dinner party member

      Paul Weigel

    • dinner party member

      Grace Goodall

    • dinner party member

      Kurt Fuerberg

    • dinner party member

      Bess Flowers

    • dinner party member

      Michael Fitzmaurice

    • manager

      Reginald Barlow

    • principal

      Edwin Maxwell

    • general

      E.E. Clive

    • president

      Edward Van Sloan

    • street cleaner

      Francis Ford

    • mother

      Margaret Seddon

    • storekeeper

      Greta Meyer

    • small man

      Dwight Frye

    • old man

      Otto Hoffman

    • ticket taker

      Edward McWade

    • field doctor

      Harvey Clark

    • French girl

      Dorothy Granger

    • French girl

      Alice Ardell

    • French girl

      Luppee Lupien

    • French girl

      Carol Wines

    • boy leader

      Paul Irving

    • boy leader

      Billy Benedict

    • Heinrich's wife

      Margaret Armstrong

    • Dutch comedy team

      Harrison Greene

    • Dutch comedy team

      Helen Shipman

    • doorkeeper

      Tiny Sandford

    • German waiter

      Herbert Ashley

    • cab driver

      D'Arcy Corrigan

    • sailor

      Gaylord Pendleton

    • attendant

      Harry Cording

    • innkeeper

      Charles Bennett

    • policeman

      Robert Adair

    • Forman/porter

      Harry C. Bradley

    • barber

      Robert Mckenzie

    • porter

      Edward J. Le Saint

    • fresh man

      Eddie Phillips

    • American soldier

      Russ Clark

    • American soldier

      Lane Chandler

    • American soldier

      Boyd Gilbert

    • fat woman

      June Gittelson

    • boy

      Delmar Watson

    • boy

      Harry Watson

    • guard

      Paul Panzer

    • girl

      Janet Elsie Clark

    • German corporal

      Henry Nordlinger

    • German dispatch rider

      Buddy Roosevelt

    • American captain

      Sidney D'albrook

    • conductor

      Bert Sprotte

    • Bethke

      Henry Hunter

    • Maria

      Greta Gynt

    • cast member

      Tempe Pigott

    • cast member

      Ben Bard

    • cast member

      Jonathan Hale

    • cast member

      Tom Steele

    • Gretel

      Patricia Barry

• Credits

  • Direction:

    • Director

      James Whale

    • Assistant Director

      Joseph A. McDonough

    Production:

    • Production Company

      Universal Pictures Company

    • Executive Producer

      Charles Rogers

    • Associate Producer

      Edmund Grainger

    Writing:

    • Screenplay

      R.C. Sherriff

    • Screenplay

      Charles Kenyon

    • Based on the novel by

      Erich Maria Remarque

    • Based on the English translation by

      A.W. Wheen

    Photography:

    • Camera

      John Mescall

    • Camera

      George Robinson

    Special Effects:

    • Special Effects

      John P. Fulton

    • [Explosives]

      George Daly

    Editing:

    • Film Editor

      Ted J. Kent

    Design:

    • Art Director

      Charles D. Hall

    • Associate [Art Director]

      James W. Sullivan

    Music:

    • Music

      Dimitri Tiomkin

    • Music Director

      Charles Previn

    Sound:

    • Sound

      William Hedgcock

    • Sound

      Bernard B. Brown