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The Day Will Dawn
Drama film with a runtime of 99 minutes, released in 1942. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign correspondent Lockwood (Ralph Richardson), forced out of Norway by the Nazi invasion, returns to the occupied Scandanavian country at the request of the War Office. Lockwood's assignment is to guide the RAF to a heavily camouflaged German U-boat base for sabotage purposes. With the help of patriotic Norwegian seaman Alstad (Finlay Currie), Lockwood completes his mission, only to be arrested as a spy and sentenced to be shot. The final portions of the film detail our hero's attempt to escape back to England with Alstad's daughter Kari (Deborah Kerr), with whom he has fallen in love. The intricately crafted screenplay is attributed to three of Britain's finest scriveners, Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunewald and Patrick Kirwen-and one suspects that there were even more talented hands involved in this thrill-packed wartime adevnture.
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Cast
- Hugh Williams
- Ralph Richardson
- Deborah Kerr
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Griffith Jones
- Roland Culver
- Finlay Currie
- Bernard Miles
- Patricia Medina
- Henry Oscar
- John Warwick
- David Horne
- Henry Hewitt
- Raymond Huntley
- Niall MacGinnis
- Beckett Bould
- John Boxer
- George Carney
- Meriel Forbes
- Philip Friend
- Gerhardt Kempinski
- George Merritt
- Brefni O'Rorke
- Olaf Olsen
- Roland Pertwee
- John Salew
- Gus McNaughton
- Victor Weske
- Anatole de Grunwald
- Terence Rattigan
- Patrick Kirwan
- Michael Chorlton
- Cyril Knowles
