The Day Will Dawn (1942)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Colin Metcalfe

      Hugh Williams

    • Police Inspector Gunter

      Jones, Griffiths

    • Kari Alstad

      Deborah Kerr

    • Frank Lockwood

      Ralph Richardson

    • Kommandant Ulrich Wettau

      Francis L. Sullivan

    • Commander Pittwaters

      Roland Culver

    • Captain Alstad

      Finlay Currie

    • Olaf

      Niall MacGinnis

    • Gerda

      Elizabeth Mann

    • Norwegian under secretary [role deleted]

      Raymond Huntley

    • Ingrid

      Patricia Medina

    • Captain Waverley, naval intelligence

      Roland Pertwee

    • newspaper editor

      Henry Oscar

    • Evans, foreign editor

      David Horne

    • Jack, news editor

      Henry Hewitt

    • Milligan , reporter in Fleet Street pub

      John Warwick

    • political journalist

      Brefni O'Rorke

    • Irish soldier

      Bernard Miles

    • Bergen, spokesman of Langedal

      Beckett Bould

    • Langedal's schoolmaster

      Olaf Olsen

    • army sergeant

      Gus McNaughton

    • Harry, soldier in Fleet Street pub

      George Carney

    • 'man-in-the-street' in Fleet Street pub

      John Salew

    • Milly, the barmaid

      Forbes, Merial

    • pilot

      Philip Friend

    • German trawler captain

      George Merritt

    • u-boat commander

      John Boxer

    • Heinrich

      Weske, Victor

    • barman, Bla Tonne in Oslo

      Kempinski, Gerrard

    • [Evans's secretary]

      Ann Farrer

    • [Daily Express reporter in phone booth]

      Ronald Adam

    • [journalist sitting at bar in pub]

      George Woodbridge

    • [lieutenant]

      Jack Watling

    • [Fossen, Langedal's postmaster]

      James Knight

    • [Hendriksen, Langedal's grocer]

      Davis Escott

    • [Pastor Lunder]

      Olav Martin Leirvaag

    • [baker]

      Dennis Wyndham

    • [baker's wife]

      Madeleine Godar

    • [u-boat commander]

      George Street

    • [Wettau's assistant]

      Lloyd Pearson

    • [reporter]

      Stuart Lindsell

    • [reporter]

      Brian Herbert

    • [reporter]

      Patrick Curwen

    • [pot-boy]

      Colin Chandler

    • [sub-editor]

      Hugh Barnet

    • [sub-editor]

      Jack Dallas

    • [soldier in Fleet Street pub with Harry]

      Johnnie Schofield

    • [American reporter, Oslo hotel]

      Tommy Duggan

    • [American reporter, Oslo hotel]

      John Slater

    • [American reporter, Oslo hotel]

      Jack Lester

    • [Fritz]

      George Skillan

    • [Fritz's assistant]

      Daly Cooper

    • [receptionist]

      Albert Chevalier

    • [wine waiter]

      Ben Williams

    • [hall porter]

      Leslie Dawson

    • [barman]

      Billy Wells

    • [page]

      Brian Nissen

    • [page]

      Derek Briggs

    • [page]

      Gordon Dane

    • [rear gunner]

      John Warley

    • [navigator]

      David Carr

    • [second pilot]

      Glen Farmer

    • [bomb aimer]

      John Brandon

    • [lieutenant at Cherbourg]

      Gordon Glennon

    • [captain of destroyer]

      Robert Rendel

    • [sergeant major]

      Vincent Holman

    • [sub-lieutenant]

      Michael Whittaker

    • [R.A.M.C.]

      Patrick Ross

    • [petty officer]

      James Carson

    • [nurse][role deleted]

      Noreen Craven

    • [group captain]

      Wing Commander Freeboy

    • [American sailor in Bla Tonne, Oslo]

      Conway Palmer

    • [American sailor in Bla Tonne, Oslo]

      Eric Clavering

    • [Norwegian sailor]

      Peter Cozens

    • [naval commander]

      Anthony Shaw

    • [naval commander]

      Barry O'Neill

    • [pilot, second bomber]

      Mike Johnson

    • [bomb aimer]

      Alan Haines

    • [lieutenant commander at Admiralty]

      Derek Elphinstone

    • [Petersen, man mending nets]

      D.J. Williams

    • [old man with beard]

      Gordon Begg

    • [old man]

      Carleton Crowe

    • [old woman]

      Vi Kaley

    • [cockney soldier]

      Stan Paskin

    • [drunk]

      George Turner

    • [naval pickett]

      Jon Godfrey

    • [cockney soldier]

      George Pughe

    • [German guard at cell door hatchway]

      Valentine Dyall

    • [German officer]

      Clifford Cobb

    • [German officer]

      Con Tennyson

    • [German soldier]

      Victor Brougham

    • [German soldier]

      Hamilton Humphries

    • [German soldier]

      Nigel Ferguson

    • [German soldier]

      Walter Gotell

    • [servant, Norwegian legation][scene cut]

      Jack Lawton

    • [servant, Gunter's house][role deleted]

      Arthur Denton

    • [drunk, Oslo quayside]

      Frank Atkinson

    • [radio announcer, bakery scene]

      John Barker

    • [assistant in construction hut]

      Brooks Turner

    • [signaller on destroyer]

      C.E. Edwards

    • [intelligence officer]

      Michael Goring

    • [wireless operator]

      Donald Whitwell

    • [Norwegian girl]

      Patricia Dent

    • [German sailor]

      Charles Wembley

• Credits

  • Unknown:

    • Directed by

      Harold French

    • [Production Company]

      Niskos Films

    • Opening Logo

      General Film Distributors

    • In Charge of Production

      Harold Boxall

    • Produced by

      Paul Soskin

    • Production Manager

      Tom White

    • Assistant Director

      E.J. Holding

    • Treatment and Screen Play by

      Terence Rattigan

    • Treatment and Screen Play by

      Anatole de Grunwald

    • Treatment and Screen Play by

      Kirwen, Patrick

    • By [Original Story]

      Frank Owen

    • Lighting

      Bernard Knowles

    • Camera [Operator]

      Cyril Knowles

    • Editor

      Michael C. Chorlton

    • Art Director

      William C. Andrews

    • Musical Score by

      Richard Addinsell

    • Music Performed by

      London Symphony Orchestra

    • London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by

      Muir Mathieson

    • Sound Supervision

      A.W. Watkins

    • [Sound] Recording

      C.C. Stevens

    • Sound System

      Western Electric Mirrophonic

    • Thanked in credits

      The Air Ministry

    • Thanked in credits

      The War Office

    • Thanked in credits

      Royal Norwegian Government

    • Made at

      D&P Studios

    • [Studio]

      Denham Studios