Decision Before Dawn.

Duration: 119 min

Genre: war film, spy film

Year Published: 1951

Creator: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Country of Origin: United States

Credits: Directed by: Anatole Litvak
Written by: Peter Viertel
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Hildegard Knef, Walter Ladengast, Walter Janssen, Helene Thimig, O. E. Hasse, Werner Fuetterer, Loni Heuser, Adi Lödel, Gary Merrill, Hans Christian Blech, Charles Régnier, Gert Fröbe, Oskar Werner, Robert Freitag, Richard Basehart, Elfe Gerhart, Peter Martin Urtel …
Produced by: Anatole Litvak, Frank McCarthy
Cinematography: Franz Planer
Music: Franz Waxman
Edited by: Dorothy Spencer

Description: American Colonel Devlin leads a military intelligence unit that recruits German prisoners of war to spy on their former comrades. "Happy" (Oskar Werner) volunteers to spy after his friend is killed by fanatical fellow prisoners for voicing doubts about the war's outcome. Happy is assigned the related task of locating the 11th Panzer Corps, which might oppose the wholesale defection.

Complete Record: DECISION BEFORE DAWN. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1951. 119 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the novel, “Call It Treason,” by George Locke Howe. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 20Dec51; LP1512.

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