--- title: 'The Day Will Dawn (1942)' type: 'film' director: 'Harold French' released: '1942-01-01' runtime_minutes: 98 genres: - 'Drama' - 'War' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-day-will-dawn-1942' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034639/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Day Will Dawn (1942) 1942 · 98 min · Drama, War · United Kingdom ## Synopsis The Day Will Dawn, released in the US as The Avengers, is a 1942 British war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence Rattigan, based on a story by Frank Owen. The music by Richard Addinsell was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson. ## Credits - **Director:** [Harold French](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-french) - **Screenplay:** [Terence Rattigan](https://cinepixo.com/people/terence-rattigan) - **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Addinsell](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-addinsell) - **Producer:** [Paul Soskin](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-soskin) - **Director of Photography:** [Cyril J. Knowles](https://cinepixo.com/people/cyril-j-knowles) ## Cast - [Niall MacGinnis](https://cinepixo.com/people/niall-macginnis) - [Ralph Richardson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-richardson) - [Patricia Medina](https://cinepixo.com/people/patricia-medina) - [Hugh Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-williams) - [Bernard Miles](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-miles) - [Griffith Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/griffith-jones) - [George Merritt](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-merritt) - [Deborah Kerr](https://cinepixo.com/people/deborah-kerr) - [Roland Culver](https://cinepixo.com/people/roland-culver) - [Francis L. Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-l-sullivan) - [Jack Watling](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-watling) - [Tommy Duggan](https://cinepixo.com/people/tommy-duggan) - [Raymond Huntley](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-huntley) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-day-will-dawn-1942 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7729198); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.