Tonight We Raid Calais
| Tonight We Raid Calais | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | John Brahm |
| Written by | L. Willinger Rohama Lee |
| Screenplay by | Waldo Salt |
| Produced by | André Daven |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
| Edited by | Allen McNeil |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge Emil Newman |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tonight We Raid Calais is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm and starring John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, and Annabella.[1]
Plot summary
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Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton), a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into Nazi-occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant with help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Carter confronts a French woman Odette Bonnard (Annabella) who hates the British and the Germans.
Cast
- Annabella as Odette Bonnard
- John Sutton as Geoffrey Carter
- Lee J. Cobb as Bonnard
- Beulah Bondi as Mme. Bonnard
- Blanche Yurka as Widow Grelieu
- Howard Da Silva as Sgt. Block
- Marcel Dalio as Jaques Grandet
- Ann Codee as Mme. Grandet
- Richard Derr as German Captain (unbilled)
- other unbilled players include Sven Hugo Borg
Reception
Quentin Tarantino picked Tonight We Raid Calais as one of his five favorite World War II films. It was one of the films he discovered while doing research for his own World War II film, Inglourious Basterds.[2]
References
- ^ "Tonight we Raid Calais". allmovie.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
- ^ "Tarantino picks his 5 favorite WWII movies". Retrieved Oct 12, 2022.
External links
- Tonight We Raid Calais at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Tonight We Raid Calais at IMDb
- Tonight We Raid Calais at AllMovie
- Tonight We Raid Calais at the TCM Movie Database
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Categories:
- 1943 films
- 1940s war films
- 20th Century Fox films
- American black-and-white films
- American war films
- Films about the French Resistance
- Films directed by John Brahm
- Films scored by Cyril J. Mockridge
- Films scored by Emil Newman
- Films with screenplays by Waldo Salt
- World War II films made in wartime
- American spy films
- 1940s English-language films
- War drama film stubs