<i>The Moon Is Down</i> (film)

The Moon Is Down (film)

<p><i><b>The Moon Is Down</b></i> is a 1943 American war film starring <a href="/en/Cedric_Hardwicke" title="Cedric Hardwicke" class="wl">Cedric Hardwicke</a> and <a href="/en/Henry_Travers" title="Henry Travers" class="wl">Henry Travers</a> and directed by <a href="/en/Irving_Pichel" title="Irving Pichel" class="wl">Irving Pichel</a>. It is based on the 1942 <a href="/en/The_Moon_Is_Down" title="The Moon Is Down" class="wl">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="/en/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck" class="wl">John Steinbeck</a>. During <a href="/en/World_War_II" title="World War II" class="wl">World War II</a>, German soldiers occupy a small Norwegian town.</p>

<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt1">1943 film by Irving Pichel</div>
<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: The Moon Is Down, Directed by, Written by, Ba...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox vevent mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">The Moon Is Down</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size mw-image-border"><a href="/en/File:The_Moon_Is_Down_(film).jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:The_Moon_Is_Down_(film).jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/The_Moon_Is_Down_%28film%29.jpg/220px-The_Moon_Is_Down_%28film%29.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="260" data-file-height="384" data-file-type="bitmap" height="325" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/The_Moon_Is_Down_%28film%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/The_Moon_Is_Down_%28film%29.jpg 2x" alt="The_Moon_Is_Down_%28film%29.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Irving_Pichel" title="Irving Pichel" class="wl">Irving Pichel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Nunnally_Johnson" title="Nunnally Johnson" class="wl">Nunnally Johnson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data">the novel <i><a href="/en/The_Moon_Is_Down" title="The Moon Is Down" class="wl">The Moon Is Down</a></i><br>by <a href="/en/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck" class="wl">John Steinbeck</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data">Nunnally Johnson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Cedric_Hardwicke" title="Cedric Hardwicke" class="wl">Cedric Hardwicke</a><br><a href="/en/Henry_Travers" title="Henry Travers" class="wl">Henry Travers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Arthur_Charles_Miller" title="Arthur Charles Miller" class="mw-redirect wl">Arthur Miller</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Louis_R._Loeffler" title="Louis R. Loeffler" class="mw-redirect wl">Louis Loeffler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Alfred_Newman_(composer)" title="Alfred Newman (composer)" class="mw-redirect wl">Alfred Newman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br>company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><a href="/en/20th_Century_Fox" title="20th Century Fox" class="mw-redirect wl">Twentieth Century-Fox</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data">Twentieth Century-Fox</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;white-space: normal;">Release dates</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist ">
<ul><li>March<span>&nbsp;</span>13,<span>&nbsp;</span>1943<span style="display:none"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1943-03-13</span>)</span><span> </span>(Toronto, Canada)</li>
<li>March<span>&nbsp;</span>26,<span>&nbsp;</span>1943<span style="display:none"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1943-03-26</span>)</span><span> </span>(New York)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">90 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$1.7 million<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$1.2 million (US rentals)<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>


The Moon Is Down is a 1943 American war film starring Cedric Hardwicke and Henry Travers and directed by Irving Pichel. It is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. During World War II, German soldiers occupy a small Norwegian town. 