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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
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. During World War II, an American intelligence unit led by Col. Devlin (Gary Merrill) is recruiting German prisoners of war to infiltrate enemy lines and gather vital ...
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- Richard Basehart
- Anatole Litvak
- Drama, War, Mystery & Thriller
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), t ...
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.
- Anatole Litvak, Gerd Oswald
- Richard Basehart
Title: Decision Before Dawn. Summary: As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines. Directed by: Anatole Litvak.
A war thriller about two German prisoners sent behind enemy lines as spies by the US army. Watch the trailer, read the overview and see the cast and crew of this classic film directed by Anatole Litvak.
