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Name: Decision Before Dawn
Released: 1951-12-18
Cast: Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegarde Neff, Moninique Blanchar

Decision Before Dawn

NR
1h 59m
1951

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Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill star in this stirring 1951 Best Picture Oscar® Nominee. As the Third Reich declines, the Allies develop a radical new plan – to employ German POWs as spies. Led by American Colonel Devlin (Merrill) and executed by Lieutenant Rennick (Basehart), the plan is risky. Tension builds as the Americans learn whether the former Nazis will help or betray the Allies!

Director:

Anatole Litvak

Producer:

Anatole Litvak, Frank McCarthy

Writer:

Peter Viertel

Cast:

Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegarde Neff, Moninique Blanchar, Von Schmidel

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Reviews

Associated Press

Bob Thomas

Movie-making at its best.

Werner, who served in the Axis forces during the war, gives a magnetic performance.

June 22, 2017

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

It's most noted for being more sympathetic to peace loving German soldiers than are most American war films.

Litvak's intriguing account of U.S. Intelligence operation during the last year of WWII was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, boasting a good performance from the young Oskar Werner as a sensitive and naive German soldier-traitor.

June 21, 2017

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Goatdog's Movies

Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

The film manages to be suitably hard on the Nazi regime while providing one of the first sympathetic treatments of the German people.

June 21, 2017

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