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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
Klaus Kinski
Whining Soldier (uncredited)
Hildegard Knef
Hilde
Oskar Werner
Cpl. Karl Maurer - aka Happy
Richard Basehart
Lt. Dick Rennick
Gary Merrill
Col. Devlin
Hans Christian Blech
Sgt. Rudolf Barth - aka Tiger
Werner Fuetterer
von Bülow (uncredited)
Charles Regnier
German Prisoner (uncredited)
Gert Fröbe
German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
Helene Thimig
Fräulein Schneide
Robert Freitag
Sgt. Paul Richter
Til Kiwe
Adjutant (uncredited)
Dominique Blanchar
Monique
O.E. Hasse
Col. Oberst von Ecker
Wilfried Seyferth
Heinz Scholtz, SS-Mann
Walter Janssen
Fiedl (uncredited)
Rudolf Vogel
Volkssturmmann (uncredited)
Peter Martin Urtel
German Soldier (uncredited)
Loni Heuser
Fritzi Kollwitz (uncredited)
Arno Assmann
Ernst Brandenbacher (uncredited)
Walter Ladengast
German Deserter (uncredited)
Uli Steigberg
(uncredited)
Harald Wolff
Hartmann (uncredited)
Elfe Gerhart
Barmaid (uncredited)
Jaspar von Oertzen
Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Maria Landrock
Wehrmacht Girl (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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