Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 war film which tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II. It starred Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, 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 Award...
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Decision Before Dawn is a 1951 war film which tells the story of the American Army using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence in the closing days of World War II. It starred Richard Basehart, Oskar Werner, 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.
By late 1944, it is obvious that the Germans will lose the war. Colonel Devlin (Gary Merrill) leads a military intelligence unit that recruits German prisoners of war to spy on their former comrades. "Tiger" (Hans Christian Blech), a cynical older thief and ex-circus worker, is willing to work for whichever side is winning. On the other hand, "Happy" (Oskar Werner) is a young idealist who volunteers after his friend is killed by fanatical fellow prisoners for voicing doubts about the war's outcome....
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