The film charts with initiated scrutiny the psychological career of a typical first world war disillusioned wreck of a soldier with a wooden leg his way out of his bitterness by remorseless hunger and desire for revenge and retaliation against all humanity, finding Nazism his way of getting his way to some sort of satisfaction, which turns him quite logically unfortunately into a perfect monster of inhumanity. Alexander Knox makes his character completely credible, his ideal of perfectionism gives him no option but to proceed consistently the whole way on the line to his final stand as an accused of crimes against humanity at a formal trial. His realisation of the role is wholly admirable, and equally admirable is Marsha Hunt as his former Polish fiancée who at an early stage has to refuse to know him any more. The realism is formidable and perfect, there are many memorable scenes, particularly all the circumstances about his brother Karl's family, whose son becomes like his own. Alexander Knox always delivered excellent performances, but this should be one of his best, - and mind you, this film was made several years before the end of the war.
Review of None Shall Escape
