Tonight We Raid Calais
Tonight We Raid Calais is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm and starring John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, and Annabella.[1]
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| Directed by | John Brahm |
| Produced by | André Daven |
| Written by | L. Willinger Rohama Lee |
| Screenplay by | Waldo Salt |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge Emil Newman |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
| Edited by | Allen McNeil |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot summary
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
External links
- Tonight We Raid Calais at the American Film Institute Catalog
- 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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