Dangerous Moonlight

Dangerous Moonlight
Theatrical Release Poster (Suicide Squadron)
Directed byBrian Desmond Hurst
Written byTerence Young (original story and screenplay)
Rodney Ackland and
Brian Desmond Hurst (contributing writers, uncredited)
Produced byWilliam Sistrom
StarringAnton Walbrook
Sally Gray
John Laurie
Guy Middleton
Cecil Parker
Alan Keith
Derrick De Marney
CinematographyGeorges Périnal
Edited byAlan Jaggs
Music byRichard Addinsell
Distributed byRKO Radio British Productions
Release date
  • 26 June 1941 (1941-06-26) (UK)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Dangerous Moonlight (U.S. title: Suicide Squadron) is a 1941 British film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Anton Walbrook. The film is perhaps best known for its score, written by Richard Addinsell and orchestrated by Roy Douglas, that includes the Warsaw Concerto. The gowns in the film were designed by Cecil Beaton.[1]

Brian Hurst, director of Dangerous Moonlight, in 1976 (portrait by Allan Warren)

Dangerous Moonlight's love-story plot, told mainly in flashbacks, involves the fictional composer of the Warsaw Concerto, a Polish piano virtuoso and shellshocked fighter pilot, who meets an American war correspondent in Warsaw and later returns from the United States to join the RAF in England in the war against the Germans, who have occupied Poland.[2]

  1. ^ Farmer 1984, p. 330.
  2. ^ Jahiel, Edwin. "Dangerous Moonlight (UK, 1941)." Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel. Retrieved: 7 May 2012.