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Release year: 1943

Storyline

A French captain (Jean-Pierre Aumont) poses as a Nazi to pinpoint a U-boat base off the coast of France, while assuming the identity of a look-a-like French citizen.

Top credits

Directors

Jack Conway

Writers

Cast

Jean-Pierre Aumont — Bertrand Corlay, Capt. Pierre Metard
Susan Peters — Anne Pinot
Margaret Wycherly — Mme. Henriette Corlay
Signe Hasso — Elise

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Did you know

• The Germans built several submarine bases on the west coast of France after their occupation of the country in 1940. Enormous submarine pens of reinforced concrete were erected at Bordeaux, Brest, La Pallice, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire. These structures protected the U-Boats from attack and allowed them freer access to the Atlantic Ocean, as the submarines did not have to transverse the English Channel or go around the UK via the North Sea from bases in Germany. As of 2020 these massive constructions are still largely intact and some have even been re-purposed. The pens at La Pallice can be seen in Das Boot (1981) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).

• French screen star Jean-Pierre Aumont made his American acting debut in this film in a dual role of "Bertrand Corlay/Captain Pierre Metard," as did Swedish actress Signe Hasso as "Elise." Like the character he plays in Assignment in Brittany (1943), Aumont fought with the Free French forces in Tunisia, Italy and France. He was awarded both the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre. In fact, after only one more film in Hollywood, The Cross of Lorraine (1943), he returned to fight with the Free French. Even in Hollywood, he supported the war effort, appearing at special screenings of Assignment in Brittany, to help raise funds for the Resistance.

• Peter Lawford appears as an uncredited "Navigator."