The Day Will Dawn
Drama
War
Thrilling drama of the new secret front!
When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En route, his ship is attacked by a German U-boat, but his warning to the Royal Navy is dismissed and he loses his post. With the German invasion of Norway soon after, Metcalfe returns, determined to uncover enemy operations and strike back against the occupiers. (Note: The film was released in the United States under the alternate title The Avengers (1942).)
1942-06-08
en
Cast
Director
Harold French
Hugh Williams as Colin Metcalfe
Griffith Jones as Police Inspector Gunter (as Griffiths Jones)
Deborah Kerr as Kari Alstad
Ralph Richardson as Frank Lockwood
Francis L. Sullivan as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
Roland Culver as Cmdr. Pittwaters
Finlay Currie as Capt. Alstad
Niall MacGinnis as Olaf
Raymond Huntley
Patricia Medina as Ingrid
Roland Pertwee as Capt. Waverley
Henry Oscar as Newspaper Editor
David Horne as Evans, Foreign Editor
Henry Hewitt as Jack, News Editor
Brefni O'Rorke as Political Journalist
Bernard Miles as McAllister (Irish Soldier)
Gus McNaughton as Army Sergeant
George Carney as Harry, Soldier in Fleet Street Pub
John Salew as "Man-in-the-Street" in Fleet Street Pub
Meriel Forbes as Milly, the Barmaid
Philip Friend as Pilot
George Merritt as German Trawler Captain