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James Tobin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:01:03 -0600
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Bernard Chasan:

>I still find myself welcoming it [Warsaw Concerto] whenever it is
>played on the radio.  It is indeed showy- and yet it has a feeling
>of menace and danger about it as well, appropriate to a WW2 movie.
>The title of the movie, either in England or the USA, was "Suicide
>Squadron", I seem to recall.  Can anybody confirm or debunk that claim?

It was called Suicide Squadron in the US and Dangerous Moonlight in
Britain.  It was a 1941 British production.  Someone (British correspondent
in 2003) at imdb.com called it a "preposterous British war romance." I
never saw the film but my feelings about the music are similar to
Bernard's.

Jim Tobin

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