The Day Will Dawn

5.6

98 minutes

6/8/1942

Overview

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.

Cast List

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
Elizabeth Mann
as Gerda
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
John Warwick
as Milligan, Reporter in Fleet Street Pub
Brefni O'Rorke
as Political Journalist
Bernard Miles
as McAllister (Irish Soldier)
Beckett Bould
as Bergen, Spokesman of Langedal
Olaf Olsen
as Langedal's Schoolmaster
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
John Boxer
as U-Boat Commander
H Victor Weske
as Heinrich
Gerhard Kempinski
as Barman, Bia Tonne in Oslo
George Spence
as Norwegian Villager (uncredited)