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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Anatole Litvak |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1951 |
| MANUFACTURER: | 20th Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, DVD-Video, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, B&W, Drama, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie, Paranoid, Spy Film, Suitable for Children, Tense, Thriller, Traitorous Spies/Double Agents, USA, War, War Drama, War Spy Film |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543238812 |
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Customer Reviews of Decision Before Dawn
A good script! "Decision Before Dawn" was written by Peter Viertel, once himself a member of the O.S.S. <
>It's a good script, full of weird characters, played by German actors like Hans-Christian Blech, Hildegard Neff and the famous O.E. Hasse. If you look close enough, you can even spot a very young Klaus Kinski! <
>The performance given by young Austrian master-actor Oscar Werner is simply superb. <
>If you like a gripping (anti-) war-movie, you'll be delighted with "Decision Before Dawn". <
>Watch out for a TV-documentary on the screenwriter Peter Viertel: "PETER VIERTEL: BETWEEN THE LINES". It will be shown in the fall of 2008. Don't miss it!
Excellent story dealing with the morals of war.
Definitely an anti-war classic story. Authentic in every respect and a good view and moral lesson for anyone with an interest in the meaning of loyalty to one's country. R. Woolfe
WW II counterintelligence drama
Anatole Litvak's engaging WWII drama "Decision Before Dawn" examines the war from an entirely different perspective. Filmed in the war ravaged remains of Nazi Germany in 1950, the story commences as American troops are poised to cross the Rhine and enter Germany. In the waning days of the war an American intelligence detail lead by Col. Devlin played by Gary Merrill and Lt. Rennick played by Richard Basehart are using captured POW's to act as spys. Using specially trained and suitable German soldiers they hope to gain sensitive information to aid in the war effort. Oskar Werner playing Cpl. Karl Maurer is just such a man.
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>Werner, an educated son of a physician, and not a loyal Nazi supporter, is a medic in the German Luftwaffe. He and Basehart along with another Nazi traitor code named Tiger and played by Hans Christian Blech are dropped behind enemy lines to determine the location of crack Panzer units.
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>What makes the film so unique, was that Werner's odyssey through the dying Third Reich gives us insight into the disposition of the German populace. Their downtrodden existence scrounging out an existence in the final months of the war is a disturbing sight to behold.
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>Litvack's film is a tribute to the nameless German spys who aided the Allied war effort.