Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
- Directed by
- John Farrow
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A quiet Norwegian fisherman is drawn into the fight against Nazi occupation. He joins the British commandos for a daring raid on the Norwegian coast.
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What happens
Commandos Strike at Dawn is a 1942 war film directed by John Farrow and written by Irwin Shaw from a short story entitled "The Commandos" by C. S. Forester that appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine in June 1942. Filmed in Canada, it starred Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish in her return to the screen, Cedric Hardwicke and Robert Coote. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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