Decision Before Dawn (1951)
De Tweede Wereldoorlog gaat zijn laatste fase in: Duitsland ligt in puin, maar geeft niet toe. Het Amerikaanse leger mist cruciale kennis over de Duitse eenheden die aan de overkant van de Rijn opereren en besluit twee Duitse gevangenen te sturen om informatie te verzamelen. Het plan is riskant: de Gestapo beschikt over een vreselijk efficiënt netwerk om spionnen en deserteurs te identificeren en gevangen te nemen. Bovendien is het niet duidelijk dat 'Tiger', die vuil werk niet erg vindt zolang de prijs maar goed is, en de oorlogsvermoeide 'Happy', die gemakkelijk door zijn gevoelens kan worden verraden, betrouwbare agenten zijn. Nadat Tiger en een andere Amerikaanse agent met succes zijn geïnfiltreerd, wordt Happy geparachuteerd in Beieren. Zijn taak: de verblijfplaats achterhalen van een krachtige Duitse pantsereenheid die op weg is naar het westfront.
Regiseur:
Anatole Litvak
Schrijver:
Peter Viertel
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Richard Basehart as Lt. Dick Rennick |
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Gary Merrill as Col. Devlin |
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Oskar Werner as Cpl. Karl Maurer - aka Happy |
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Hildegard Knef as Hilde |
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Dominique Blanchar as Monique |
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O.E. Hasse as Col. Oberst von Ecker |
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Wilfried Seyferth as Heinz Scholtz, SS-Mann |
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Hans Christian Blech as Sgt. Rudolf Barth - aka Tiger |
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Helene Thimig as Fräulein Schneide |
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George Tyne as Sgt. Griffin |
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Robert Freitag as Sgt. Paul Richter |
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Harold Benedict as Lt. Pete Gevers |
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Arno Assmann as Ernst Brandenbacher (uncredited) |
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Heinrich Berg as (uncredited) |
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Bert Brandt as German NCO (uncredited) |
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Jochen Diestelmann as (uncredited) |
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Ulrich Folkmar as Prisoner (uncredited) |
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Otto Friebel as Clerk (uncredited) |
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Gert Fröbe as German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited) |
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Werner Fuetterer as von Bülow (uncredited) |
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Elfe Gerhart as Barmaid (uncredited) |
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Loni Heuser as Fritzi Kollwitz (uncredited) |
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Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe as German NCO (uncredited) |
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Charles Jacquemar as Volkssturmmann (uncredited) |
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Walter Janssen as Fiedl (uncredited) |
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Erik Jelde as German NCO (uncredited) |
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Klaus Kinski as Whining Soldier (uncredited) |
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Gerhard Kittler as German Lieutenant (uncredited) |
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Til Kiwe as Adjutant (uncredited) |
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Klaus W. Krause as German NCO (uncredited) |
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Walter Ladengast as German Deserter (uncredited) |
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Maria Landrock as Wehrmacht Girl (uncredited) |
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Herbert Lehnert as (uncredited) |
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Adi Lödel as Kurt (uncredited) |
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Peter Lühr as von Schirmeck (uncredited) |
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Emil Matousek as (uncredited) |
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Wolf Petersen as (uncredited) |
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Charles Regnier as German Prisoner (uncredited) |
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Arnulf Schröder as Old Prisoner of War (uncredited) |
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Paul Schwed as Man on Wehrmacht Bus (uncredited) |
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Kai-Siegfried Seefeld as (uncredited) |
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Uli Steigberg as (uncredited) |
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Peter Martin Urtel as German Soldier (uncredited) |
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Rudolf Vogel as Volkssturmmann (uncredited) |
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Hans von Morhart as Prisoner of War (uncredited) |
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Jaspar von Oertzen as Prisoner of War (uncredited) |
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Maria Wimmer as Woman in the Street (uncredited) |
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Harald Wolff as Hartmann (uncredited) |
| Directing | Anatole Litvak | Director |
| Production | Anatole Litvak | Producer |
| Editing | Dorothy Spencer | Editor |
| Production | Frank McCarthy | Producer |
| Writing | Peter Viertel | Screenplay |
| Camera | Franz Planer | Director of Photography |
| Writing | George Howe | Novel |
| Sound | Franz Waxman | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Gerd Oswald | Second Unit |
| Sound | Harry M. Leonard | Sound |
| Sound | Leonid Raab | Conductor |
| Sound | Alfred Bruzlin | Sound |
| Art | Ludwig Reiber | Art Direction |
