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Decision Before Dawn
1951, Dec 21
1h 59m
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. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Directed by
Anatole Litvak
Richard Basehart
Lt. Dick Rennick
Klaus Kinski
Whining Soldier (uncredited)
Gary Merrill
Col. Devlin
Gert Fröbe
German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
Oskar Werner
Cpl. Karl Maurer - aka Happy
Hildegard Knef
Hilde
Helene Thimig
Fräulein Schneide
Walter Ladengast
German Deserter (uncredited)
Charles Regnier
German Prisoner (uncredited)
Rudolf Vogel
Volkssturmmann (uncredited)
Robert Freitag
Sgt. Paul Richter
Werner Fuetterer
von Bülow (uncredited)
Dominique Blanchar
Monique
Til Kiwe
Adjutant (uncredited)
Arno Assmann
Ernst Brandenbacher (uncredited)
Loni Heuser
Fritzi Kollwitz (uncredited)
Walter Janssen
Fiedl (uncredited)
Maria Landrock
Wehrmacht Girl (uncredited)
O.E. Hasse
Col. Oberst von Ecker
Elfe Gerhart
Barmaid (uncredited)
Uli Steigberg
(uncredited)
Peter Martin Urtel
German Soldier (uncredited)
Hans Christian Blech
Sgt. Rudolf Barth - aka Tiger
Wilfried Seyferth
Heinz Scholtz, SS-Mann
Jaspar von Oertzen
Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Harald Wolff
Hartmann (uncredited)
Harold Benedict
Lt. Pete Gevers
Heinrich Berg
(uncredited)
Bert Brandt
German NCO (uncredited)
Jochen Diestelmann
(uncredited)
Ulrich Folkmar
Prisoner (uncredited)
Otto Friebel
Clerk (uncredited)
Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe
German NCO (uncredited)
Charles Jacquemar
Volkssturmmann (uncredited)
Erik Jelde
German NCO (uncredited)
Gerhard Kittler
German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Klaus W. Krause
German NCO (uncredited)
Herbert Lehnert
(uncredited)
Adi Lödel
Kurt (uncredited)
Peter Lühr
von Schirmeck (uncredited)
Emil Matousek
(uncredited)
Wolf Petersen
(uncredited)
Arnulf Schröder
Old Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Paul Schwed
Man on Wehrmacht Bus (uncredited)
Kai-Siegfried Seefeld
(uncredited)
Hans von Morhart
Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Maria Wimmer
Woman in the Street (uncredited)
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