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Commandos Strike at Dawn Overview:

Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) was a Drama - Historical Film directed by John Farrow and produced by Lester Cowan.

Academy Awards 1943 --- Ceremony Number 16 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringMorris Stoloff, Louis GruenbergNominated
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Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)

By Beatrice on Sep 12, 2014 From Flickers in Time

Commandos Strike at Dawn Directed by John Farrow Written by Irwin Shaw from a story by C.S. Forester 1942/USA Columbia Pictures Corporation First viewing/Amazon Instant Video I was not looking forward to watching a combat movie with Paul Muni.  I was pleasantly surprised. Eric Toreson (Muni) is a... Read full article

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Commandos Strike at Dawn Quotes:

Schoolteacher: [watching a Nazi bookburning] I'm writing a novel myself. I'd be very disappointed if you gentlemen don't burn it.
Mrs. Korstad: [advising her daughter-in-law at her wedding reception] Do not permit yourself to get fat. Fat has ruined more marriages than actresses and pretty widows.
Johan Garme: The herring will run, Germans or no Germans.
Hilma Arnesen: A dry punch bowl is against nature.
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Commandos Strike at Dawn Facts
This was the movie debut of 43-year-old George Macready, who had been a stage actor since 1926.
Alexander Knox who plays the German Captain in 8th credited position, also provides the uncredited voice of the off-screen Chaplain of the British naval vessel, as well as that of the off-screen closing narrator.
Behind-the-scenes footage made during location filming in Canada is included in the CBC-TV documentary "Canada's War in Colour" (2005).
Bristol Blenheim light bombers and Westland Lysander liason aircraft were painted up with German Balkankreuz markings to stand in for unavailable Luftwaffe types.
This film was one of a handful of movies that were all released around the same time that dealt with the Norwegian Resistance in World War II. The movies include They Raid by Night aka The Commandos Have Landed; Commandos Strike at Dawn; First Comes Courage and Edge of Darkness.
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