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Commandos Strike at Dawn
From Columbia Pictures
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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.
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Directed by John Farrow
Paul MuniEric Toresen
Ann CarterSolveig Toresen
Richard DerrGunnar Korstad
Elisabeth FraserAnna Korstad
Cedric HardwickeAdmiral Bowen
Robert CooteRobert Bowen
Anna LeeJudith Bowen
Ray CollinsJohan Bergesen
Erville AldersonJohan Garme
Louis Jean HeydtKarl Arnesen
Arthur MargetsonGerman Colonel
Alexander KnoxGerman CaptainSimilar titles
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CinemaSerfApr 1, 2023
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 to successfully bomb an airbase being built at altitude that could be used to attack allied territory and shipping. It's all a bi… Read more
t meandering, however. Muni isn't really a very convincing Norwegian nor is Alexander Knox particularly menacing as a captain in the Wehrmacht nor Rod Cameron as the Pastor. Indeed, aside from Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the archetypal British admiral, none of the casting works especially well here - and coupled with some very wordy dialogue, that manages to drag this down a little into melodrama territory. It ends rousingly enough, though, and given it's purpose was largely propagandist - it does what is says on the tin. Watchable, but forgettable fayre.