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).)
Cast
Hugh Williams
Colin Metcalfe
Griffith Jones
Police Inspector Gunter (as Griffiths Jones)
Deborah Kerr
Kari Alstad
Ralph Richardson
Frank Lockwood
Francis L. Sullivan
Kommandant Ulrich Wettau
Roland Culver
Cmdr. Pittwaters
Finlay Currie
Capt. Alstad
Niall MacGinnis
Olaf
Elizabeth Mann
Gerda
Raymond Huntley
Unknown
Patricia Medina
Ingrid
Roland Pertwee
Capt. Waverley
Henry Oscar
Newspaper Editor
David Horne
Evans, Foreign Editor
Henry Hewitt
Jack, News Editor
John Warwick
Milligan, Reporter in Fleet Street Pub
Brefni O'Rorke
Political Journalist
Bernard Miles
McAllister (Irish Soldier)
Beckett Bould
Bergen, Spokesman of Langedal
Olaf Olsen
Langedal's Schoolmaster
Gus McNaughton
Army Sergeant
George Carney
Harry, Soldier in Fleet Street Pub
John Salew
"Man-in-the-Street" in Fleet Street Pub
Meriel Forbes
Milly, the Barmaid
Philip Friend
Pilot
George Merritt
German Trawler Captain
John Boxer
U-Boat Commander
H Victor Weske
Heinrich
Gerhard Kempinski
Barman, Bia Tonne in Oslo
George Spence
Norwegian Villager (uncredited)
Crew
Patrick Kirwan
Treatment, Screenplay
Terence Rattigan
Treatment, Screenplay
Anatole de Grunwald
Treatment, Screenplay
Harold French
Director
Frank Owen
Story
Michael C. Chorlton
Editor
Cyril J. Knowles
Director of Photography
E.J. Holding
Assistant Director
Paul Soskin
Producer
A.W. Watkins
Sound Supervisor
C. C. Stevens
Sound Recordist
Bernard Knowles
Lighting Manager
Richard Addinsell
Music
Tom White
Production Manager
Harold Boxall
Executive In Charge Of Production
Muir Mathieson
Conductor
William C. Andrews
Art Direction
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