Moon is Down, The

Date: 1943
Director: Irving Pichel
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon, Margaret Wycherly, Peter van Eyck
Location(s): California (USA)

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When Norway is invaded, a Commandant and the town Mayor confront each other, attempting to maintain civility as far as possible.

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The scene is appropriately set with a stock shot of what appears to be a fjord.

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The Rhondda Valley is turned into a Norwegian dal for this studio and set based feature.

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Colonel Lanser (Cedric Hardwicke) greets Mayor Orden (Henry Travers). The village was originally a set built at Fox Ranch, Brent's Crags in Malibu Canyon, California as a replica of a Welsh mining town for the film 'How Green Was My Valley'.

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The band plays "We're Sailing Against England'.

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In the California sunshine, Nordic miners tread the same path that Welsh miners trod just two years before.