Counter-Attack

Counter-Attack
Directed byZoltan Korda
Screenplay byJohn Howard Lawson
Based on
Counter-Attack
1943 play
by
StarringPaul Muni
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byAl Clark
Charles Nelson
Music byLouis Gruenberg
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 26, 1945 (1945-04-26)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Counter-Attack is a 1945 American war film directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Paul Muni and Marguerite Chapman as two Russians trapped in a collapsed building with seven enemy German soldiers during World War II. It was adapted from the 1944 Broadway play Counterattack by Janet and Philip Stevenson, which was in turn based on the play Pobyeda by Mikhail Ruderman and Ilya Vershinin.