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For the unrelated 1985 novel by Kay Thorpe, see Dangerous Moonlight (novel).
Dangerous Moonlight (known as Suicide Squadron in the USA) was a 1941
1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
 British film, starring Anton Walbrook
Anton Walbrook

Anton Walbrook was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom....
, and best known for its score written by Richard Addinsell
Richard Addinsell

Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British people composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight ....
 with orchestrations by Roy Douglas
Roy Douglas

Roy Douglas is a British composer and arranger....
, which includes the Warsaw Concerto
Warsaw Concerto

The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight . It was written by United Kingdom composer Richard Addinsell....
. Among the costumes, the gowns were designed by Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE, was an England fashion and portrait photographer and an Academy Award-winning stage design and costume designer for films and the theatre....
.

The film's love-story
Romantic love

Romance is a general term that refers to a celebration of life often through art, music and the attempt to express love with words or deeds. It also refers to a feeling of excitement associated with love....
 plot revolves around the fictional composer of the Warsaw Concerto, a piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 virtuoso
Virtuoso

A virtuoso is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability at singing or playing a musical instrument. The plural form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos, and the feminine form sometimes used is virtuosa....
 and "shell-shocked"
Combat stress reaction

Combat stress reaction, in the past commonly known as shell shock or battle fatigue, is a military term used to categorize a range of behaviours resulting from the stress of battle which decrease the combatant's fighting efficiency....
 combat
Combat

Combat, or fighting, is purposeful violence conflict intended to establish dominance over the opposition.The term "combat" typically refers to armed conflict between military forces in warfare, whereas the more general term "fighting" can refer to any violent conflict....
 pilot
Aviator

An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession.The feminine word aviatrix is sometimes used and is the correct term to refer to all women pilots....
, who meets an American War Correspondent in Warsaw, and later goes back from America to join the RAF in England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 to continue to fight against the Nazis World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 occupation of Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
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For the unrelated 1985 novel by Kay Thorpe, see Dangerous Moonlight (novel).
Dangerous Moonlight (known as Suicide Squadron in the USA) was a 1941
1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
 British film, starring Anton Walbrook
Anton Walbrook

Anton Walbrook was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom....
, and best known for its score written by Richard Addinsell
Richard Addinsell

Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British people composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight ....
 with orchestrations by Roy Douglas
Roy Douglas

Roy Douglas is a British composer and arranger....
, which includes the Warsaw Concerto
Warsaw Concerto

The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight . It was written by United Kingdom composer Richard Addinsell....
. Among the costumes, the gowns were designed by Cecil Beaton
Cecil Beaton

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE, was an England fashion and portrait photographer and an Academy Award-winning stage design and costume designer for films and the theatre....
.

The film's love-story
Romantic love

Romance is a general term that refers to a celebration of life often through art, music and the attempt to express love with words or deeds. It also refers to a feeling of excitement associated with love....
 plot revolves around the fictional composer of the Warsaw Concerto, a piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 virtuoso
Virtuoso

A virtuoso is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability at singing or playing a musical instrument. The plural form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos, and the feminine form sometimes used is virtuosa....
 and "shell-shocked"
Combat stress reaction

Combat stress reaction, in the past commonly known as shell shock or battle fatigue, is a military term used to categorize a range of behaviours resulting from the stress of battle which decrease the combatant's fighting efficiency....
 combat
Combat

Combat, or fighting, is purposeful violence conflict intended to establish dominance over the opposition.The term "combat" typically refers to armed conflict between military forces in warfare, whereas the more general term "fighting" can refer to any violent conflict....
 pilot
Aviator

An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession.The feminine word aviatrix is sometimes used and is the correct term to refer to all women pilots....
, who meets an American War Correspondent in Warsaw, and later goes back from America to join the RAF in England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 to continue to fight against the Nazis World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 occupation of Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
. Walbrook was an accomplished amateur pianist, so his hands are seen playing in the film, however the music on the soundtrack is played by the professional pianist Louis Kentner
Louis Kentner

Louis Kentner was a Hungary, later United Kingdom, pianist who excelled in the works of Fr?d?ric Chopin and Franz Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire....
. Kentner's involvement was initially uncredited, as he thought that being seen to be playing film music would not help his career. He changed his mind on seeing the film's success).

The film is mentioned in the British television series Dad's Army
Dad's Army

Dad?s Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard in the World War II. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977....
 episode Is There Honey Still for Tea?
Is There Honey Still for Tea?

Is There Honey Still for Tea? is the third episode of the eighth United Kingdom comedy series Dad's Army that was originally broadcast on Wednesday September 19, 1975....
, an in-joke
In-joke

An in-joke is a joke whose humor is clear only to those people who are "inside" a social group or occupation; an esoteric joke. They may be colloquially referred to as "You had to be there" moments, as in "You had to have been there when it happened to think it's funny"....
 as John Laurie
John Laurie

John Paton Laurie was a Scotland actor born in Dumfries, Scotland. He is probably most recognisable for his role as Private James Frazer, the gaunt-faced, intense, pessimistic undertaker and British Home Guard soldier in the popular BBC situation comedy Dad's Army from 1968 to 1977....
 had starred in the film.

Cast

  • Anton Walbrook
    Anton Walbrook

    Anton Walbrook was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom....
     - Stefan 'Steve' Radetzky
  • Sally Gray
    Sally Gray

    Sally Gray was an English movie actress of the 1930's and 1940's.Born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway, London, blonde actress Sally Gray possessed one of the most attractive voices in British....
     - Carol Peters Radetzky
  • Derrick De Marney
    Derrick De Marney

    Derrick De Marney was an English stage and film actor and producer....
     - Michael 'Mike' Carroll, Radetzky's manager
  • Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker

    Cecil Parker was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969....
     - Specialist
  • Percy Parsons - Bill Peters
  • Kenneth Kent
    Kenneth Kent

    Kenneth Kent , sometimes Keneth Kent, was an English actor. Most notable for portraying the emperor Napoleon III of France in the 1948 film Idol of Paris, he also appeared in the war films Dangerous Moonlight and Night Train to Munich ....
     - Andre De Guise, the impresario
  • J.H. Roberts - Residing physician
  • Guy Middleton
    Guy Middleton

    Guy Middleton Powell 14 December 1907– 30 July 1973) was an England character actor.Middleton was born in Hove, England and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before turning to acting in the 1930s....
     - Shorty
  • John Laurie
    John Laurie

    John Paton Laurie was a Scotland actor born in Dumfries, Scotland. He is probably most recognisable for his role as Private James Frazer, the gaunt-faced, intense, pessimistic undertaker and British Home Guard soldier in the popular BBC situation comedy Dad's Army from 1968 to 1977....
     - British commander
  • Frederick Valk - Polish bomber commander
  • O.B. Clarence - Waiter with tray of wine
  • Marion Spencer - Miss Gratton, De Guise's secretary
  • Philip Friend - Pete, RAF pilot


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