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The Moon Is Down (film)

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The Moon Is Down
Directed byIrving Pichel
Written byNunnally Johnson
Based onthe novel The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck
Produced byWilliam Goetz and Nunnally Johnson
StarringCedric Hardwicke
Henry Travers
Lee J. Cobb
Dorris Bowdon
CinematographyArthur Miller
Edited byLouis Loeffler
Music byAlfred Newman
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century-Fox
Release dates
  • March 13, 1943 (1943-03-13) (Toronto, Canada)
  • March 26, 1943 (1943-03-26) (New York)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.7 million[1]
Box office$1.2 million (US rentals)[2]

The Moon Is Down is a 1943 American war film starring Cedric Hardwicke, Lee J. Cobb and Henry Travers and directed by Irving Pichel. The Screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. This was the Dorris Bowdon's last movie and Natalie Wood's first movie and features an uncredited John Banner who would go on to play Sgt. Shultz in the TV comedy series Hogan's Heroes.[3]

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Plot

During World War II, German soldiers occupy a small Norwegian town. The citizens are forced to work the mines for the German War effort. The Allies attempt to aid the growing resistance movement by dropping canisters filled with explosives, weapons, ammo, and even chocolate. German soldiers are confounded by the fact that the locals resent them. Several German soldiers are killed or wounded and the townspeople pay a great price for their resistance.

Cast

Production

The set was a place called Brent's Crags, California and was the same set of How Green Was My Valley filmed one year earlier.[4] Filming began on November 18, 1942 and ended January 14, 1943. Editing of the 16mm Film was done at a breakneck pace for the World Premiere in Toronto, Canada on March 13, 1943. The American Premier was March 26th and the official American release date was April 9, 1943. Twentieth Century Fox paid $300,000, a record at the time, for the movie rights.[3]

Reception

Bosley Crowther, the film reviewer for The New York Times, gave The Moon Is Down a mixed verdict. He lauded screenwriter Nunnally Johnson for creating a "clear and incisive screen version" of the book, resulting in "a picture which is the finest on captured Norway yet and a powerful expression of faith in the enduring qualities of a people whose hearts are strong." He also praised "Irving Pichel's superlative direction and a generally excellent cast". However, Crowther also observed that "the intellectual nature of this picture—its very clear and dispassionate reasoning—drain it of much of the emotion that one expects in such a story at this time."[4]

Named one of the 10 best films of the year by the National Board of Review.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Top Coin Pix Minus Stars". Variety. March 1943. p. 3.
  2. ^ "Top Grossers of the Season", Variety, 5 January 1944 p 54
  3. ^ a b c Amelio, Anthony (2020). Bibliographia Dystopia: Volume 1, John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down (2nd revised ed.). Atlanta: Primedia. pp. 162–163. ISBN 9781636491110.
  4. ^ a b Bosley Crowther (March 27, 1943). "'The Moon Is Down,' the Film Version of Steinbeck's Novel and Play, Starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Opens at Rivoli". The New York Times.

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