| Tonight We Raid Calais | |
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| Directed by | John Brahm |
| Produced by | André Daven |
| Written by | L. Willinger Rohama Lee |
| Screenplay by | Waldo Salt |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge Emil Newman |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
| Edited by | Allen McNeil |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tonight We Raid Calais is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm and starring John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, and Annabella. [1]
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Geoffrey Carter (John Sutton), a young commando British intelligence officer, is sent into Nazi-occupied France as a one-man raid to destroy a munitions plant with help from a patriotic farmer, M. Bonnard (Lee J. Cobb). Carter confronts a French woman Odette Bonnard (Annabella) who hates the British and the Germans.
Quentin Tarantino picked Tonight We Raid Calais as one of his five favorite World War II films. It was one of the films he discovered while doing research for his own World War II film, Inglourious Basterds . [2]
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