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- Richard BasehartLt. Dick Rennick
- Gary MerrillCol. Devlin
- Oskar WernerCpl. Karl Maurer
- Hildegard KnefHilde
- Dominique BlancharMonique
- O. E. HasseCol. Von Ecker
- Wilfried SeyferthHeinz Scholtz - SS Man
- Hans Christian BlechSgt. Rudolf Barth
- Helene ThimigFräulein Paula Schneider
- Robert FreitagSgt. Paul Richter
- George TyneSgt. Griffin
- Harold BenedictLt. Pete Gevers
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Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 American war film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, and Hans Christian Blech. It tells the story of the U.S. Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence as clandestine "line-crossers" in the closing days of World War II.
Decision Before Dawn: Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef. As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners of war to spy behind German lines.
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- Drama, War
- Anatole Litvak
- 1952-02-25
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Decision Before Dawn - Full Cast & Crew. As World War II draws to a close, a German prisoner volunteers to spy for the Allies and is dropped behind Nazi lines on a counter-espionage...
- Anatole Litvak
Harry M. Leonard. Sound. George Howe. Novel. Peter Viertel. Screenplay. WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information.
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information.
The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters.