The Day Will Dawn

The Day Will Dawn (1942)

DramaWar

When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En route, his ship is attacked by a German U-boat, but his warning to the Royal Navy is dismissed and he loses his post. With the German invasion of Norway soon after, Metcalfe returns, determined to uncover enemy operations and strike back against the occupiers. (Note: The film was released in the United States under the alternate title The Avengers (1942).)

Director: Harold French
Writers: Anatole de Grunwald, Terence Rattigan, Patrick Kirwan.

Casts

	Hugh Williams as Colin Metcalfe
	Griffith Jones as Police Inspector Gunter (as Griffiths Jones)
	Deborah Kerr as Kari Alstad
	Ralph Richardson as Frank Lockwood
	Francis L. Sullivan as Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
	Roland Culver as Cmdr. Pittwaters
	Finlay Currie as Capt. Alstad
	Niall MacGinnis as Olaf
	Elizabeth Mann as Gerda
	Raymond Huntley as
	Patricia Medina as Ingrid
	Roland Pertwee as Capt. Waverley
	Henry Oscar as Newspaper Editor
	David Horne as Evans, Foreign Editor
	Henry Hewitt as Jack, News Editor
	John Warwick as Milligan, Reporter in Fleet Street Pub
	Brefni O'Rorke as Political Journalist
	Bernard Miles as McAllister (Irish Soldier)
	Beckett Bould as Bergen, Spokesman of Langedal
	Olaf Olsen as Langedal's Schoolmaster
	Gus McNaughton as Army Sergeant
	George Carney as Harry, Soldier in Fleet Street Pub
	John Salew as "Man-in-the-Street" in Fleet Street Pub
	Meriel Forbes as Milly, the Barmaid
	Philip Friend as Pilot
	George Merritt as German Trawler Captain
	John Boxer as U-Boat Commander
	H Victor Weske as Heinrich
	Gerhard Kempinski as Barman, Bia Tonne in Oslo
	George Spence as Norwegian Villager (uncredited)

Crew