Decision Before Dawn
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| Decision Before Dawn | |
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| Directed by | Anatole Litvak |
| Produced by | Anatole Litvak Frank McCarthy |
| Written by | Peter Viertel |
| Starring | Richard Basehart Gary Merrill Oskar Werner Hildegard Knef |
| Cinematography | Franz Planer |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1951 |
| Running time | 119 min |
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Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 war film which tells the story of the American Army looking for intelligence in the closing days of World War II, which has to rely on potentially unreliable German prisoners to gather information. It stars Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef, Dominique Blanchar, O.E. Hasse, Wilfried Seyferth, Klaus Kinski and Hans Christian Blech.
The movie was adapted by Jack Rollens (uncredited) and Peter Viertel from the novel Call It Treason by George Howe. It was directed by Anatole Litvak.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Picture.
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