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A scene in the MGM International film "The Last Chance," produced in Switzerland.
THE LAST CHANCE. Multi-lingual drama of refugees. Leopold Lindtberg, Director. Produced in Switzerland by Lazar Wechsler. MGM International. Highly recommended.
Everyone speaks his own language in The Last Chance, probably the most cosmopolitan picture ever filmed. The number of languages heard in it adds up to half a dozen. English, of course, is the predominating tongue, but there are respectable slices of Italian, French, Yiddish, German, and Dutch.
Based on the novel by Richard Schweizer, The Last Chance tells the story of a group of people who, though they come from widely diversified origins, find that they are all seeking the same goal — to get out of Italy
and away from the Nazis — across the Swiss border to freedom. The picture was produced in Switzerland by Lazar Wechsler and acquired by MGM International Films Corporation for release throughout the United States.
The languages in The Last Chance come easily and naturally to their speakers. There is, for example, a German professor in the film for whom the only thing with meaning in life is that he be allowed to finish his book. The role is portrayed by Rudolf Kaempf, a real German professor. The roles of a Jewish tailor from Poland and his niece, Chanele, are played actually by a Jewish tailor from Poland,
Maurice Sakhnowsky, and his niece, Berthe. Carlo Romatko, a laborer from Yugoslavia, is seen in the role of a Yugoslav worker, and Gertrudten Cate, a woman from Holland, portrays a woman from Holland.
The leading roles are those of two British officers and an American sergeant. The story starts with their escape from the Nazis as they are being transported to a prison camp in Germany. The parts are played by E. G. Morrison and John Hoy, a Major and a Lieutenant in the British army, who themselves escaped into Switzerland after being captured by the Germans in Italy. Sergeant Braddock is portrayed by Ray Rea