DECISION BEFORE DAWN '51

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• Release Year: 1951
• Genre: Drama; War
• Plot: Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill star in a film that's 'as stirring a drama as any you'll want to see' (The New York Times). Adapted by Peter Viertel from George Howe's novel Call It Treason, and directed by Anatole Litvak, this riveting World War II drama was nominated for the 1951 Best Picture Oscar®.; ; As the Third Reich declines in power, 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, and the tension builds as the Americans learn whether the former Nazis will help or betray the Allies.
• Cast: Richard Basehart; Gary Merrill; Oskar Werner; Hildegard Knef; Dominique Blanchar; O.E. Hasse; Wilfried Seyferth; Hans Christian Blech; Helene Thimig; Robert Freitag; George Tyne; C.A. Amos; Harold Benedict; H.W. Briggs; D.G. Devine; L.E. Dixon; B.L. Hendrickson; D. Kogel; S.I. Rice; F. Slaman; J.E. Stratton; Eva Marie Andres; Arno Assmann; Almut Bachmann; Kemp Batchelor; Heinrich Berg; Ulla Best; Bert Brandt; Don Devine; Jochen Diestelmann; Erich Ebert; Ulrich Folkmar; Otto Friebel; Gert Fröbe; Werner Fuetterer; Rainer Geldern; Elfe Gerhart; Auguste Hansen-Kleinmichel; Rudolf Heimann; Max Herbst; Loni Heuser; Alex Hohenlohe; Eva Maria Hoppe; Ernst Höchstätter; Walter Janssen; Erik Jelde; Katja Jobs; Klaus Kinski; Liselotte Kirschbaum; Gerhard Kittler; Til Kiwe; Sonja Kosta; Klaus W. Krause; Wolfgang Kuhnemann; Luitpold Kummer; Walter Ladengast; Maria Landrock; Egon Lippert; Ingeborg Luther; Adi Lödel; Peter Lühr; Kurt Marquardt; Elisabeth Millberg; Charles Regnier; Von Schmidel; Arnulf Schröder; Paul Schwed; Henriette Speidel; Gerhard Steinberg; Liselotte Steinweg; Ruth Trumpp; Peter Martin Urtel; Hans von Morhart; Jaspar von Oertzen; Meta Weber; Clemens Wilmenrod; Dieter Wilsing; Maria Wimmer; Harald Wolff; Anatole Litvak; Peter Viertel; George Howe; Jack Rollens; Carl Zuckmayer
• Director: Anatole Litvak
• Runtime: 1:59
• Company: Twentieth Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie