The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine
Directed byTay Garnett
Screenplay byRing Lardner Jr.
Michael Kanin
Robert Hardy Andrews
Alexander Esway
Story byRobert Aisner
Lilo Dammert
Based onA Thousand Shall Fall
1941 novel
by Hans Habe
Produced byEdwin H. Knopf
StarringJean-Pierre Aumont
Gene Kelly
CinematographySidney Wagner
Edited byDan Milner
Music byBronislau Kaper
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • November 12, 1943 (1943-11-12)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,010,000[1]
Box office$1,248,000[1]

The Cross of Lorraine is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer war film about French prisoners of war escaping a German prison camp and joining the French Resistance. Directed by Tay Garnett, starring Jean-Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly, the film was partly based on Hans Habe's 1941 novel A Thousand Shall Fall. The title refers to the French Cross of Lorraine, which was the symbol of the Résistance and the Free French Forces chosen by Charles de Gaulle in 1942.[2]

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Hoffmann, Hilmar (1996). The Triumph of Propaganda: Film and National Socialism, 1933-1945. Berghahn Books. pp. 188–189. ISBN 978-1-57181-122-6.

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