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Dangerous Moonlight is a British film of genre Drama directed by Brian Desmond Hurst released in USA on 20 april 1942 with Anton Walbrook
Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 april 1942
Length 1h34
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Rating61%
For the unrelated 1985 novel by Kay Thorpe, see Dangerous Moonlight (novel).
Dangerous Moonlight (also known as Suicide Squadron in the USA) is a 1941 British film, starring Anton Walbrook, best known for its score written by Richard Addinsell with orchestrations by Roy Douglas, which includes the Warsaw Concerto. Among the costumes, the gowns were designed by Cecil Beaton.
The film's love-story plot told mainly in flashbacks, revolves around the fictional composer of the Warsaw Concerto, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who meets an American war correspondent in Warsaw, and later returns from America to join the RAF in England to continue to fight against the Germans and their occupation of Poland.
Synopsis
During the German invasion of Poland, Polish airman and piano virtuoso, Stefan Radetzky (Anton Walbrook) meets American reporter Carole Peters (Sally Gray). He volunteers to fly a "suicide mission" against Germany, but is not selected. Radetzky is among the last to escape Warsaw and months later, in New York, he and Carole meet again, and marry.Actors
Anton Walbrook
(Stefan 'Steve' Radetzky)
Sally Gray
(Carol Peters Radetzky)
John Laurie
(British Commander)
Guy Middleton
("Shorty")
Cecil Parker
(Specialist)
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