The Symbolism of the Kitchen Box Bed in Pre-WWII Anglo-American Cinema

Another kitchen scene with a box bed. The last one was The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935), a British spy film adapted from John Buchan's novel featuring Robert Donat as an unsuspecting Canadian caught in a pre-WWII subterfuge and on the run in rural Scotland. This time the film is Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942), where a Norwegian dock master (Paul Muni) is on the run for killing a Nazi colonel. The hearth is to our left, the bed to our right.