The Film: The Moon Is Down (1943)
Basic Facts
Title: The Moon Is Down
Year: 1943
Director: Irving Pichel
Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson
Based on: Novel The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Studio / Distributor: 20th Century-Fox
Runtime: ~90 minutes
Language: English
The film is set during World War II.
A small Norwegian town is occupied by German soldiers.
The townspeople are forced to work (for example, in mines) under the German occupation.
The local Mayor Orden (played by Henry Travers) leads the resistance in his community.
Colonel Lanser (played by Cedric Hardwicke) is the German officer in charge. He tries to impose order and persuade the people to cooperate.
Over time, the townspeople organize clandestine acts of resistance: the Allies even drop canisters with explosives, weapons, ammo, and even chocolate to help them.
As the story goes on, there are casualties, and both the occupiers and the occupied pay a high price.
Main Cast
Cedric Hardwicke as Colonel Lanser (the German commander)
Henry Travers as Mayor Orden (the town’s mayor)
Lee J. Cobb as Dr. Albert Winter
Dorris Bowdon as Molly Morden
Margaret Wycherly as Sarah Orden, etc.
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