ID

FBW001379      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1943

Original Title

Tonight We Raid Calais

Directed by

John Brahm

Produced by

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Andre Daven; Script: Waldo Salt; Based on: L. Willinger (Story), Rohama Lee (Story); Camera: Lucien Ballard; Editing: Allen McNeil; Art direction: Richard Day, J. Russell Spencer; Music: Cyril J. Mockridge, Emil Newman

Cast

Annabella (Odette Bonnard); Frank Sutton (Geoffrey Carter); Lee J. Cobb (Bonnard); Beulah Bondi (Mme. Bonnard); Blanche Yurka (Widow Grelieu); Howard da Silva (Sgt. Block); Marcel Dalio (Jacques Grandet); Ann Codee (Mme. Grandet); Nigel de Brulier (Danton); Robert Lewis (Maurice Bonnard); Richard Derr (Captain); Leslie Denison (Capt. Baird); William Edmunds (Bell Ringer); Lester Matthews (Maj. West); Reginald Sheffield (Commander); John Banner (Kurz); Leslie Vincent (English Pilot); George Lynn (Lieutenant); Rudolf Amendt-Anders (als: Robert O. Davis)

Length

70'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Geoffrey Carter is a British officer on a mission to sneak behind German lines and light up a munitions plant so the RAF can locate and destroy it. He gets some help from Frenchwoman Odette Bonnard, who starts out hating the British but grows to accept them and Carter.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987