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Commandos Strike at Dawn

Genres
War
Drama
Rating
5.5
Status
Released
Release Date1942-12-30
Runtime98 min
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesUnited States of America
IMDbView on IMDb

Overview

A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.

Keywords
world war ii
single father
father daughter relationship
fishing village
nazi occupied norway

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Cast & Crew

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Paul Muni

as Eric Toresen

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Ann Carter

as Solveig Toresen

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Richard Derr

as Gunnar Korstad

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Elisabeth Fraser

as Anna Korstad

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Cedric Hardwicke

as Admiral Bowen

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Robert Coote

as Robert Bowen

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Anna Lee

as Judith Bowen

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Ray Collins

as Johan Bergesen

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Erville Alderson

as Johan Garme

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Louis Jean Heydt

as Karl Arnesen

Reviews

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C

CinemaSerf

Apr 1, 2023

6/10

There were a few of these wartime dramas designed to bring attention to the atrocities being carried out by the Nazis on the erstwhile peaceful people of Norway. This one finds "Eric" (Paul Muni) flee to Britain where he trains and returns to his homeland determined to wreak revenge on his occupiers and their Quisling allies and to help the British…

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