Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW000966 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1943 |
Original Title |
Bomber's Moon |
Directed by |
Edward Ludwig, Harold B. Schuster, John Brahm (one day, uncredited) |
Produced by |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Sol M. Wurtzel; Executive producer: William Goetz; Dialoge direction: Robert Lewis; Assistent director: William Eckhardt, Jasper Blystone; Script: Aubrey Wisberg, Kenneth Gamet; Based on: Leonard Lee (Novel); Camera: Lucien Ballard; Special optical effects: Fred Sersen; Editing: Robert Fritch; Sound: Harry M. Leonard, George Leverett; Art direction: James Basevi, Lewis H. Creber; Set decoration: Thomas Little; Set decoration, var: Al Orenbach (Associate Set Decorator); Costumes: Rene Hubert; Music: David Buttolph; Musical direction: Emil Newman; 2nd unit, director: Robert Florey |
Cast |
George Montgomery (Capt. Jeffrey Dakin); Annabella (Lt. Alexandra Zoreich); Kent Taylor (Capt. Paul von Block, alias Paul Husnik); Walter Kingsford (Friederich Mueller); Martin Kosleck (Luftwaffe Maj. von Streicher); Dennis Hoey (Gestapo Maj. von Grunow); Robert H. Barrat (Ernst); George N. Neise (Gestapo Lieutenant); Kenneth Brown (Karl); Richard Graham (Lt. Danny Dakin); Victor Kilian (Henrik Van Seeler); Jack Lambert (Curly, the tail-gunner); Robert Lewis (Priest); Mike Mazurki (Kurt); Wolfgang Zilzer (Nazi Doctor Treating Jeff); Fred Nurney (Otto, the butler); Christian Rub (Johann); Otto Reichow (Hans, German soldier at dock); Wallis Clark (Col. Sir Charles Sanford); Frank Reicher (Dr. Hartman); Gretl Dupont (Elsa); Lutz Altschul (als: Louis V.- Arco) (Mess Sergeant); Willy Kaufman (German Soldier); Paul Kruger (Fisherman); Felix Basch (Dr. Hartman, oflag medical officer); Fred Giermann (Oflag Guard); Rolf Lindau (Oflag Guard); Eric Mack (Oflag Guard); Lionel Royce (German Officer); Hans Schumm (German Soldier, Search Party in Woods); Hermine Sterler (Greta); Hans von Morhart (Mess Orderly); James Bush; George Davis; Leslie Denison; Edith Evanson; Art Foster; Constant Franke; Arno Frey; Guy Kingsford; Rolf Myzet; Lester Sharpe; Reginald Sheffield; George Sorel; Leslie Vincent; Sam Waagenaar; Crane Whitley |
Length |
70' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Dates |
- 19 Jul 1943: Premiere |
Further Remarks |
- Tonsystem: Western Electric |
Abstract |
American pilot Capt. Jeffrey Dakin is shot down over Germany and put in a POW camp. He escapes along with a Czech Capt. Paul Husnik and a Russian woman medic Lt. Alexandra Zoreich. As they make their treacherous way to freedom Capt. Husnik is exposed as a Nazi spy and killed. Lt. Zoreich flees to England in a fishing boat provided by the underground, but Capt. Dakin learns of a nearby airfield and, disguising himself as a German pilot, steals a bomber and flies it home, along the way shooting down the German who had killed his brother when he parachuted out of his plane earlier. |
Subject Terms |
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Distributor |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY (initially) |
Bibliography |
- Schwab, Lothar (Red.): Exil. Sechs Schauspieler aus Deutschland. Wolgang Zilzer (Paul Andor), Bd. 6, Berlin/West: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1983 |