Days of Glory (Film 1944)

Days of Glory is a 1944 American film, directed by Jacques Tourneur, which tells the story of a group of Soviet guerrillas fighting back during the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

It marked the film debut of Tamara Toumanova and Gregory Peck, as well as most of the other principal actors. It was also the first film produced by screen writer Casey Robinson, who in early January 1943 had been contracted by RKO Radio Pictures to write and produce the film under the working title This Is Russia. The film included the last screen appearance of actor Erford Gage, who subsequently entered the U.S. Army and was killed in action in 1945. Parts of the film were shot in Cedar City, Utah.

Days of Glory is one of a handful of Hollywood films made during American participation in World War II to increase public support for the country's alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.

Cast & Characters:
Tamara Toumanova as Nina Ivanova
Gregory Peck as Vladimir
Alan Reed as Sasha
Maria Palmer as Yelena
Lowell Gilmore as Semyon
Hugo Haas as Fedor
Dena Penn as Olga, Mitya's young sister
Glen Vernon as Mitya (as Glenn Vernon)
Igor Dolgoruki as Dmitri
Edward L. Durst as Petrov (as Edward Durst)
Lou Crosby as Johann Staub