Decision Before Dawn

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Decision Before Dawn

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Directed by Anatole Litvak
Produced by Anatole Litvak
Frank McCarthy
Written by Peter Viertel
Starring Richard Basehart
Gary Merrill
Oskar Werner
Hildegard Knef
Cinematography Franz Planer
Editing by Dorothy Spencer
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox
Release date(s) 1951
Running time 119 min
IMDb profile

Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 war film which tells the story of the American Army looking for intelligence in the closing days of World War II, which has to rely on potentially unreliable German prisoners to gather information. It stars Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef, Dominique Blanchar, O.E. Hasse, Wilfried Seyferth, Klaus Kinski and Hans Christian Blech.

The movie was adapted by Jack Rollens (uncredited) and Peter Viertel from the novel Call It Treason by George Howe. It was directed by Anatole Litvak.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Picture.


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