Decision Before Dawn (1951)

Directed by

Anatole Litvak

Genre

war film, spy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Near the end of World War II, the U.S. Army recruits German prisoners of war to spy behind enemy lines. The film follows one such prisoner as he risks his life to gather intelligence for the Americans.

tensegrittysuspensefulmelancholicbleakmorally ambiguousrealistic

What happens

Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 American war film directed by Anatole Litvak and 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. Decision Before Dawn was a critical success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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