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5 October 1942 (UK)
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Cast
(in credits order) (verified as complete) | Hugh Williams | ... | Major Peter Garnett |
| Carla Lehmann | ... | Michele de Carnot |
| Roland Culver | ... | Captain Red Gowan |
 | Michael Wilding | ... | Private Nobby Clark |
 | James Mason | ... | Raoul de Carnot |
| Nancy Price | ... | Violette, housekeeper |
| Karel Stepanek | ... | Major Lang |
| Fritz Wendhausen | ... | General von Reichman (as F.R. Wendhausen) |
| Betty Warren | ... | Lulu Clark |
| Percy Walsh | ... | M. Fayolle |
| Anita Gombault | ... | Estelle Fayolle |
| Nicholas Stuart | ... | Captain Mackenzie |
| John Salew | ... | Hauptmann Gruening |
| Yvonne Andre | ... | Martine, money collector |
| David Page | ... | Rene de Carnot, boy |
| Brefni O'Rorke | ... | Village Priest |
| Beatrice Varley | ... | British Cook |
 | Stewart Granger | ... | Sub-Lieutenant Jackson |
| Oscar Ebelsbacher | ... | Provost Officer |
 | Herbert Lom | ... | Medical Officer |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Peter Cozens | ... | Man (uncredited) |
| Walter Gotell | ... | Lieutenant Langfeld (uncredited) |
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| Harold French | |||
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| Basil Bartlett | ||
| Anatole de Grunwald | ||
| Terence Young | ||
Produced by | |||
| Marcel Hellman | .... | producer | |
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| Mischa Spoliansky | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Bernard Knowles | |||
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| Edward B. Jarvis | |||
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| Carmen Dillon | |||
| Paul Sheriff | |||
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| George Blackler | .... | makeup artist | |
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| Tom White | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| William N. Boyle | .... | assistant director (as W.N. Boyle) | |
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| A.W. Watkins | .... | recording director | |
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| W. Percy Day | .... | special effects | |
| Desmond Dickinson | .... | special effects photography | |
| Jack Mills | .... | special effects (as John Mills) | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Cyril J. Knowles | .... | camera operator | |
Production Companies
- Marcel Hellman Productions (as Excelsior Films Ltd.)
- General Film Distributors (GFD) (1942) (UK) (theatrical)
- English Films (1944) (USA) (theatrical)
- National Film Distribution (1945) (France) (theatrical)
- Eros Films (1947) (UK) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Státní Pujcovna Filmu (194?) (Czechoslovakia) (theatrical)
- Elephant Films (2005) (France) (all media)
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Revealing mistakes: When the landing craft is seen coming to collect them from the beach, there is a shadow of another landing craft in the lower left corner of the screen.See more »
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I'm sure that viewed during the war it was taken seriously but viewed today, with a critical eye, and I don't mean an aesthetic eye, its absurdity is what is called camp. It was only watching this film that I realized that the British TV series 'allo! 'allo! (1982-1992) was a broad parody. The central characters are two veddy veddy British chaps in trench coats wandering around in and out of the woods. Always in their trench coats. There's the cafe run by a Cockney in a beret always at odds with his wife. All we need is for the local flick to drop by and say "Good moaning". Even though people took this seriously at the time it boggles the mind to think people could really believe espionage
was actually conducted this way. For fans of the TV series this is a must not miss. I just wonder how stoned Croft and Lloyd were after seeing this film on TV 30+ years after having seen it in a West End cinema and realizing how absurd it all was and how they didn't notice 30 years before.