The Night Invader

The Night Invader
Directed byHerbert Mason
Written byRoland Pertwee
Brock Williams
Based onRendezvous with Death
by John Bentley
Produced byMax Milder
StarringAnne Crawford
David Farrar
Ronald Shiner
CinematographyOtto Heller
Music byJack Beaver
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. (UK)
Release date
  • 5 December 1943 (1943-12-05) (United Kingdom)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£48,145[1]
Box office£52,583[1]

The Night Invader is a 1943 British, black-and-white, drama, thriller, war film, directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Max Milder for Warner Bros. - First National Productions Ltd. the British subsidiary of Warner Bros. and starring Ronald Shiner as Witsen, Anne Crawford and David Farrar.[2]

Plot

Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister.

Cast

Availability

No print of The Night Invader is known to survive and the film is classed as "missing, believed lost".[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Steve Chibnall (2019) Hollywood-on-Thames: the British productions ofWarner Bros. – First National, 1931–1945, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 39:4, 687-724, DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2019.1615292 at p 714
  2. ^ "The Night Invader (1943) - IMDb". IMDb.
  3. ^ Missing Believed Lost British Pictures Article Archive.