The Moon Is Down (film)
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Directed by | Irving Pichel |
Produced by | Nunnally Johnson |
Written by | Nunnally Johnson |
Based on | the novel The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck |
Starring | Cedric Hardwicke Henry Travers |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Cinematography | Arthur Miller |
Edited by | Louis Loeffler |
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Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
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90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.2 million (US rentals)[1] |
The Moon Is Down is a 1943 American war film starring Cedric Hardwicke and Henry Travers and directed by Irving Pichel. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. During World War II, German soldiers occupy a small Norwegian town.
Cast
- Cedric Hardwicke as Col. Lanser
- Henry Travers as Mayor Orden
- Lee J. Cobb as Dr. Albert Winter
- Dorris Bowdon as Molly Morden
- Margaret Wycherly as Sarah Orden
- Peter van Eyck as Lt. Tonder
- William Post, Jr. as Alex Morden
- Henry Rowland as Capt. Loft
- E. J. Ballantine as George Corell
- Hans Schumm as Capt. Bentick
- Frederic Brunn as German Soldier (as Frederick Brunn)
- Ernst Deutsch as Maj. Hunter (as Ernest Dorian)
- Ludwig Donath as Hitler's Voice (as Louis Donath)
- John Banner as Lt. Prackle (uncredited)
- Jeff Corey as Albert (uncredited)
- Irving Pichel as Peder (uncredited)
- Natalie Wood as Carrie (uncredited)
Production
The set of How Green Was My Valley was reused for this film.[2]
Reception
Bosley Crowther, the film reviewer for The New York Times, gave The Moon Is Down a mixed verdict. He lauded screenwriter Nunnally Johnson for creating a "clear and incisive screen version" of the book, resulting in "a picture which is the finest on captured Norway yet and a powerful expression of faith in the enduring qualities of a people whose hearts are strong." He also praised "Irving Pichel's superlative direction and a generally excellent cast". However, Crowther also observed that "the intellectual nature of this picture—its very clear and dispassionate reasoning—drain it of much of the emotion that one expects in such a story at this time."[2]
References
- ↑ "Top Grossers of the Season", Variety, 5 January 1944 p 54
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Moon Is Down at IMDb
- The Moon Is Down at the TCM Movie Database
- The Moon Is Down at AllMovie
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- 1943 films
- English-language films
- American films
- American war films
- American World War II propaganda films
- American black-and-white films
- Films based on American novels
- Films directed by Irving Pichel
- Films set in Norway
- 20th Century Fox films
- World War II films made in wartime
- Films based on works by John Steinbeck
- Pages with broken file links
- War film stubs