Tomorrow We Live (1943 film)
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British Lion Film | |
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Running time | 87 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | English, French, German |
Tomorrow We Live (released as At Dawn We Die in the US), is a 1943 British film directed by George King and starring John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair and Yvonne Arnaud.
The film was made during the
Dorothy Hope is credited with "original story".
Plot
A young French idealist (John Clements), who gives his name as Jean Baptiste, arrives in "St Pierre-le-Port", a small town near Saint-Nazaire, a major port and base of operations for the Kriegsmarine, particularly their U-boats, on the Atlantic coast. Baptiste tells a member of the French Resistance that "I come from Saint-Nazaire. I've details of the submarine base, the docks and power plant. If I can get them to England..."
The first half of the film often has a lighthearted tone; the Germans are portrayed as bumbling and easily outwitted. The German commandant is overweight and gullible. However, after the Resistance successfully sabotages a German armaments train, the
Main cast
- John Clements as Jean Baptiste
- Godfrey Tearle as Mayor Pierre DuSchen
- Hugh Sinclair as Major von Kleist
- Greta Gynt as Marie DuSchen
- Judy Kelly as Germaine Bertan
- Yvonne Arnaud as Madame L. Labouche
- Karel Stepanekas Seitz
- Bransby Williams as Matthieu
- Fritz Wendhausen as Commandant Frissette
- Allan Jeayes as Pogo
- Gabrielle Brune as Madame Frissette
- Margaret Yarde as Fauntel
- David Keir as Jacquier
- Anthony Holles as Stationmaster
- Olaf Olsen as Sergeant Major
- D.J. Williamsas Boileau
- John Salew as Marcel La Blanc
- Walter Gotell as Hans
- Victor Beaumont as Rabineau
- Brefni O'Rorke as Moreau
- Gibb McLaughlin as Dupont
- Cot D'Ordan as Durand
- Walter Hertner as Schultz
- Herbert Lom as Kurtz
- Townsend Whitling as Rougemont
Music
References
- Notes
- ^ BBFC: Tomorrow We Live Linked 2015-04-29
- ^ The Selected Letters of William Walton, edited by Malcolm Hayes, Faber and Faber, 2002.
- Bibliography
- Aldgate, Anthony and Richards, Jeffrey. Britain Can Take it: British Cinema in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2nd Edition. 1994. ISBN 0-7486-0508-8.
- Barr, Charles, ed. All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 1986. ISBN 0-85170-179-5.
- Murphy, Robert. British Cinema and the Second World War. London: Continuum, 2000. ISBN 0-8264-5139-X.
External links
- Tomorrow We Live at the better source needed]
- Tomorrow We Live at IMDb