''Tonight We Raid Calais'' is a 1943 American film directed by John Brahm and starring John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, and Annabella.

Plot summary

Geoffrey Carter ( John Sutton), a young

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British intelligence officer, is sent into

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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.

Cast

* Annabella as Odette Bonnard * John Sutton as Geoffrey Carter * Lee J. Cobb as Bonnard *

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as Mme. Bonnard *

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as Widow Grelieu *

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as Sgt. Block *

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as Jaques Grandet * Ann Codee as Mme. Grandet *

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as German Captain (unbilled) * other unbilled players include

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Reception

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picked ''Tonight We Raid Calais'' as one of his five favorite

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films. It was one of the films he discovered while doing research for his own World War II film, ''

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* * * * 1943 films 1940s war films 20th Century Fox films American black-and-white films American war films Films about the French Resistance Films directed by John Brahm Films scored by Cyril J. Mockridge Films scored by Emil Newman Films with screenplays by Waldo Salt World War II films made in wartime American spy films 1940s English-language films {{war-drama-film-stub