Starring Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery, Oskar Homolka, Roy
Emerton, Frederick Lloyd
Directed by Milton Rosmer

Print: black/white
Runtime: 76 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

A stellar Hollywood cast gives an extra boost to the atmospheric British
feature Everything is Thunder. The story involves a Canadian POW being
hidden by a German citizen during World War I. The surprise herein is that
the German is Constance Bennett, one hundred percent sympathetic and
(eventually) apolitical. Douglass Montgomery is the prisoner, first
discovered in Connie's bathroom while the police scramble through her
apartment building. Despite the possibility of being liquidated as a traitor,
Ms. Bennett, who has a remarkable propensity for disguise, helps the
likeable Montgomery reach the allied lines. The pro-German sentiments
in Everything is Thunder (and in the Jocelyn L. Hardy book on which it
was based) were not all that uncommon in 1936 Britain; funny, though,
how this film disappeared from circulation in 1939.