Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1941

Target for Tonight (Crown Film Unit; Warner) could never have been made in Hollywood. It is too real. It had to be made exactly where it was: on the flying fields of England, over the grim, green, greasy waters of the Channel; high in the Flak-lit night over Germany.

Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany—from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors...

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