Tonight We Raid Calais

Tonight We Raid Calais
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Brahm
Written by	L. Willinger Rohama Lee
Screenplay by	Waldo Salt
Produced by	André Daven
Cinematography	Lucien Ballard
Edited by	Allen McNeil
Music by	Cyril J. Mockridge Emil Newman
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	April 30, 1943 (1943-04-30)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tonight We Raid Calais is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm and starring John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, and Annabella.^[1]

Plot summary[]

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Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton), a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into Nazi-occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant with help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Carter confronts a French woman Odette Bonnard (Annabella) who hates the British and the Germans.

Cast[]

• Annabella as Odette Bonnard
• John Sutton as Geoffrey Carter
• Lee J. Cobb as Bonnard
• Beulah Bondi as Mme. Bonnard
• Blanche Yurka as Widow Grelieu
• Howard Da Silva as Sgt. Block
• Marcel Dalio as Jaques Grandet
• Ann Codee as Mme. Grandet
• Richard Derr as German Captain (unbilled)
• other unbilled players include Sven Hugo Borg

Reception[]

Quentin Tarantino picked Tonight We Raid Calais as one of his five favorite World War II films. It was one of the films he discovered while doing research for his own World War II film, Inglourious Basterds.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• Tonight We Raid Calais at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Tonight We Raid Calais at IMDb
• Tonight We Raid Calais at AllMovie
• Tonight We Raid Calais at the TCM Movie Database

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