The Day Will Dawn (1942)
Movie Info
Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign correspondent Lockwood (Ralph Richardson), forced out of Norway by the Nazi invasion, returns to the occupied Scandanavian country at the request of the War Office. Lockwood's assignment is to guide the RAF to a heavily camouflaged German U-boat base for sabotage purposes. With the help of patriotic Norwegian seaman Alstad (Finlay Currie), Lockwood completes his mission, only to be arrested as a spy and sentenced to be shot. The final portions of the film detail our hero's attempt to escape back to England with Alstad's daughter Kari (Deborah Kerr), with whom he has fallen in love. The intricately crafted screenplay is attributed to three of Britain's finest scriveners, Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunewald and Patrick Kirwen-and one suspects that there were even more talented hands involved in this thrill-packed wartime adevnture.
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Cast
Hugh Williams
as Colin Metcalfe
as Colin Metcalfe
Ralph Richardson
as Frank Lockwood
as Frank Lockwood
Deborah Kerr
as Kari Alstad
as Kari Alstad
Griffith Jones
as Police Inspector Gunter
as Police Inspector Gunter
Roland Culver
as Naval Attache
as Naval Attache
Francis L. Sullivan
as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
Finlay Currie
as Alstead
as Alstead
Bernard Miles
as McAllister
as McAllister

Elizabeth Mann
as Gerda
as Gerda
Patricia Medina
as Ingrid
as Ingrid

Henry Oscar
as Editor
as Editor

John Warwick
as Milligan
as Milligan

David Horne
as Evans
as Evans

Henry Hewitt
as News Editor
as News Editor
Niall MacGinnis
as Olaf
as Olaf
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