The Hiding Place (film)

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The Hiding Place is a 1975 film based on the autobiographical novel The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. The film recounts the ten Boom family's experiences in the Netherlands as they provide a hiding place for Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, which leads to their arrest and imprisonment in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. It was directed by James F. Collier and stars Jeannette Clift as Corrie, Julie Harris as Betsie ten Boom, and Arthur O'Connell as Casper ten Boom in his final film appearance. It was produced by World Wide Pictures, the motion-picture ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The project originated after Graham's wife, Ruth Graham, met ten Boom in Switzerland and recommended her story to the book's eventual authors. The film's 1975 world premiere at the Beverly Theatre was disrupted by a tear-gas canister marked with a swastika, and the premiere resumed the next day. For her performance, Clift received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for New...

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