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The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
Directed by Frank Tuttle
“W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!”
Drama, War · 1h 15m
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
Cast
Veronica Lake
Dora Bruckmann
Franchot Tone
Jim Hetherton
John Sutton
Roger Hetherton
Binnie Barnes
May Hetherton
Henry Stephenson
Gen. Hetherton
Philip Merivale
Sir Leslie Buchanon
Nils Asther
Kurt van der Breughel
Edmund Breon
Freddy Merritt
David Leland
Tommy Hetherton
Mary Gordon
Annie
Raymond Severn
Jim (as a boy)
Aminta Dyne
Mrs. Muller
Crew
- Director
- Frank Tuttle
- Writer
- Michael Hogan
- Novel
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Director of Photography
- John F. Seitz
- Original Music Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
- Editor
- Stuart Gilmore
Details
- Release date
- 1944-05-10
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures