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I Edge of Darkness is not a pretty picture. It has no gay songs, dancing cuties, or laughs. It is a grim and ugly story of death, destruction and oppression. It will tear your heart out. But it does bring, with all its bestiality and ugliness, an unwavering ray of hope to a world badly in need of hope and faith.
One little scene, a simple one unfettered by bombast or dramatics, marks the pulse of the picture. In the gaunt bare vestry room of a Norwegian village church a group of fisherfolk are gathered around a bed on which an old man is dying. He is Sixtus Andresen, the aged schoolteacher, who has been mauled by the Nazi soldiers. Suddenly, off scene, a baby begins to cry. It is the child of Solveig, the baker's widow.
"In these times, it is a curse to have babies," an older woman says, in angry resentment of the invaders.
"Once I thought so, too," Solveig slowly answers. "When I learned that my husband was to be shot by the Nazis, this baby wasn't born yet. I could not see in a world as dark as this a reason for it to be born, or for me to go on living. My husband read this thought in my eyes and before they led him off he said: 'Solveig, if you do this thing you are thinking, then there is no meaning in my death. This child must see the new world that I die for.' I had the child — and now I am glad."
As Andresen begins to sink, the pastor bends his head.
"Our Father, give him strength to live," he prays. And then with great strength in his voice, "Our Father, give us strength to fight!"
Because almost every line and situation of the new Warner picture is fraught with unhappiness or violence, the cast and crew snatched eagerly at every bit of between-the-scenes nonsense which could lighten the tension and lift their spirits. Stunts and gags which otherwise would have been booed as corny brought howls of laughter and applause. There was the day, for instance, when they were shooting
In this tense scene the schoolteacher (Morris Carnovsky) defies the Nazi commandant (Dantine) and later pays with his life
Rebellion breaks out among the village's inhabitants when they can no longer endure the brutality and destructiveness of the Nazis