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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404905603
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 140490560X
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 48349
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 30, 1942
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Oscar® - winner Paul Muni (1936 Best Actor The Story of Louis Pasteur) gives a dynamic performance in ths dramatic World War II story that also stars Academy Award® - winner Lillian Gish (1971 Honorary Award) Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Anna Lee. Muni plays Erik Toresen a simple Norwegian fisherman who finds his quiet coastal village shattered by the Nazi invasion. Untrained in the ways of war the villagers use only their cold sullen hatred as defense. But when an elder member of the village community is maimed and tortured Muni mobilizes the villagers and trains them to fight. Eventually discovered by the Germans Muni and four others escape to England to lead British troops against the Germans who intend to attack the Arctic supply lines.System Requirements:Running Time: 100 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 043396100497 Manufacturer No: 10049
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Well crafted but overlong wartime morale-booster
With a story by Hornblower creator C.S. Forrester and a screenplay by future doorstop novelist Irwin Shaw, 1942's Commandos Strike at Dawn is a solid but overlong wartime propaganda picture that benefits from a good location (Canada standing in for Norway, giving it a similar feel to parts of 49th Parallel), a strong cast (an understated Paul Muni, Ray Collins, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke and the ever likeable Robert Coote among them, while Alexander Knox does double duty as a cold Nazi and the ... Read More
Rating:  - A good kind of war propaganda--lessons kids should know
As a dad, I found this film, though dated and quaint, both a stirring old war movie that boys will like as well as a good opportunity to teach some strategic realities. There are bad people in the world, they make promises and break them and they strive to enslave good people; for the sake of civilization good people often need to do otherwise bad things like fight and even kill. Rough stuff, but this is the fallen nature of this world.
Rating: - Commandos Strike at Dawn
Hollywood's first reaction to the United States' entry into World War II usually took one of two forms. In the Pacific Theater the movie typically chronicled a valiant, but doomed, defense. Wake Island and Bataan were popular movies of early defeat. When Hollywood turned its attention to the European Theater its early movies celebrated indigenous resistance against Nazism by the intrepid citizens of nations like Czechoslovakia, or, in the case of COMMANDOS STRIKE AT DAWN, Norway.
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Rating: - this movie was made in 1942 off Vancouver Island
This movie was made in 1942, and made use of the HMCS Prince David which was on leave from thrashing around in the Aleutians looking for the Japanese. My father was an officer on that ship at the time, and thoroughly enjoyed the cast, especially Sir Cecil Hardwicke. I've watched the movie, and of course it is propaganda, it was made in 1942. That is part of its charm. Remember that at the time, no one knew who would win the war. Vancouver Island makes a good stand in for Norway, and Paul Muni ... Read More
Rating: - Muni, WWII & Tommy-Guns; what more could you want!
This WWII film does have a certain aspect of propaganda to it, but the tense storyline is riveting and will keep you glued to your chair until the last scene (which isn't exactly what you'll be expecting). Muni puts in a fine performance, as always. Overall, an enjoyable war drama.
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