Director Lewis Milestone, who among other titles also directed a film adaptation of the world-famous book All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Edge of Darkness is another war theme based film based on the book. After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis. The film was made during the Second World War and it belongs to Hollywood war films, whose task was to demonstrate defiance against the occupying Nazis.