Tonight We Raid Calais
| Tonight We Raid Calais | |
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| 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 |
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Running time | 70 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tonight We Raid Calais is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm.[1]
Quentin Tarantino picked it as one of his 5 favorite World War II movies. It was one of the movies he discovered while doing research for his own World War II flick, Inglourious Basterds.[2]
Plot summary
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Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton) a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant that manufactures bombs in Nazi-occupied France with the help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Sutton confronts a French maiden 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
- unbilled players include Sven Hugo Borg