The Moon Is Down is a 1943 American war film starring Cedric Hardwicke, Lee J. Cobb and Henry Travers and directed by Irving Pichel.

The Allies attempt to aid the growing resistance movement by dropping canisters filled with explosives, weapons, ammo, and even chocolate.

[3] Bosley Crowther, the film reviewer for The New York Times, gave The Moon Is Down a mixed verdict.

He lauded screenwriter Nunnally Johnson for creating a "clear and incisive screen version" of the book, resulting in "a picture which is the finest on captured Norway yet and a powerful expression of faith in the enduring qualities of a people whose hearts are strong."

However, Crowther also observed that "the intellectual nature of this picture—its very clear and dispassionate reasoning—drain it of much of the emotion that one expects in such a story at this time.