Dangerous Moonlight

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Dangerous Moonlight
Directed by	Brian Desmond Hurst
Produced by	William Sistrom
Written by	Terence Young (original story and screenplay) Rodney Ackland and Brian Desmond Hurst (contributing writers, uncredited)
Starring	Anton Walbrook, Sally Gray, John Laurie, Guy Middleton, Cecil Parker, Alan Keith, Derrick De Marney
Music by	Richard Addinsell
Cinematography	Georges Périnal
Editing by	Alan Jaggs
Distributed by	RKO Radio British Productions
Release date(s)	26 June 1941 (UK)
Running time	94 min
Country	UK
Language	English
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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 British film, starring Anton Walbrook, and best known for its score by Richard Addinsell, which includes the Warsaw Concerto. Among the costumes, the gowns were designed by Cecil Beaton.

The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the Warsaw Concerto, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who is a refugee in England from the World War II occupation of Poland and considers returning to Poland to rejoin the war. Walbrook was a would-be pianist, so his hands are seen playing in the film, though the music on the soundtrack is played by the professional pianist Louis Kentner (initially uncredited, thinking that being seen to be playing film music would not help his career, he changed his mind on seeing the film's success[1]).