Decision Before Dawn
1951 film by Anatole Litvak / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 American war film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, and Hans Christian Blech. It tells the story of the U.S. Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence as clandestine "line-crossers" in the closing days of World War II. The film was adapted by Peter Viertel and Jack Rollens (uncredited) from the novel Call It Treason by George L. Howe. The film was a critical success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Directed by | Anatole Litvak |
Screenplay by | Peter Viertel |
Based on | Call It Treason by George Howe |
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Narrated by | Richard Basehart |
Cinematography | Franz Planer |
Edited by | Dorothy Spencer |
Music by | Franz Waxman |
Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.55 million (US rentals)[1] |
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