{{Short description|1954 film by Richard Bartlett}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Silent Raiders | image = Tsrpos.jpg | caption = Original film poster | director = Richard Bartlett | producer = Earle Lyon<br />Richard Bartlett | writer = Richard Bartlett | based_on = | screenplay = | narrator = | starring = Richard Bartlett<br />Earle Lyon<br />Jeanette Bordeaux | music = Elmer Bernstein | cinematography = Glen Gano | editing = Al Walker | studio = L&B Productions | distributor = Lippert Pictures | released = {{Film date|1954|09|17}} | runtime = 65 minutes | country = United States | language = English }} '''''Silent Raiders''''' is a 1954 low budget American war film directed, starring and co-produced by Richard Bartlett. It was the first film of the L&B Production Company, consisting of Earle Lyon and Richard Bartlett.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dlife.com/diabetes/famous_people/writers_reporters_editors/richard-bartlett-biography|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327031830/http://www.dlife.com/diabetes/famous_people/writers_reporters_editors/richard-bartlett-biography|archive-date=2015-03-27|title=Richard Bartlett Biography}}</ref>
==Plot== Prior to the Dieppe Raid, seven US Army Rangers come ashore. Their mission is to destroy a German communications centre that controls the coastal guns that threaten the Canadian amphibious assault.
==Cast== * Richard Bartlett as Sgt. Jack * Earle Lyon as Sgt. Malloy * Jeanette Bordeaux as French Girl * Earl Hansen as Pepe * Robert Knapp asLt. Finch * Dean Fredericks as Chief * Frank Stanlow as Horse * Carl Swanstrom as Wetzel
==Production== Produced for $27,000 with the working titles of ''Dieppe Raid'' and ''Three Miles to Dawn'', it was filmed in Malibu, California in 1953.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90147/silent-raiders#notes|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920092854/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/90147/Silent-Raiders/notes.html|archive-date=2017-09-20|title=SILENT RAIDERS(1954)}}</ref>
The producers were able to use composer Elmer Bernstein who was relegated to minor studios during the Hollywood blacklist period.
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==External links== *{{IMDb title| 0047492}}
Category:American World War II films Category:1954 films Category:1954 drama films Category:1950s war drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American war drama films Category:Films directed by Richard Bartlett Category:Films scored by Elmer Bernstein Category:Lippert Pictures films Category:1954 directorial debut films Category:1954 English-language films Category:1954 American films Category:English-language war drama films
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