The Day Will Dawn (1942)
1h 38m
Running Time
June 8, 1942Release Date
Plot.
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
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Cast & Crew.
Hugh Williams
Colin Metcalfe
Griffith Jones
Police Inspector Gunter
Deborah Kerr
Kari Alstad
Ralph Richardson
Frank Lockwood
Francis L. Sullivan
Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
Roland Culver
Cmdr. Pittwaters
Finlay Currie
Capt. Alstad
Niall MacGinnis
Olaf
Elizabeth Mann
Gerda
Raymond Huntley
Norwegian Under Secretary (scenes deleted)
Patricia Medina
Ingrid
Roland Pertwee
Capt. Waverley
Harold French
Director
Henry Oscar
Newspaper Editor
Frank Owen
Writer
Terence Rattigan
Writer
David Horne
Evans, Foreign Editor
Henry Hewitt
Jack, News Editor
Anatole de Grunwald
Writer
John Warwick
Milligan, Reporter in Fleet Street Pub
Patrick Kirwan
Writer
Brefni O'Rorke
Political Journalist
Paul Soskin
Producer
Bernard Miles
McAllister (Irish Soldier)
Richard Addinsell
Composer
Michael C. Chorlton
Editor
Beckett Bould
Bergen, Spokesman of Langedal
Olaf Olsen
Langedal's Schoolmaster
Gus McNaughton
Army Sergeant
George Carney
Harry, Soldier in Fleet Street Pub
John Salew
'Man-in-the-Street' in Fleet Street Pub
Meriel Forbes
Milly, the Barmaid
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The Day Will Dawn, released in the US as The Avengers, is a 1942 British war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence Rattigan, based on a story by Frank Owen. The music by Richard Addinsell was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson.