Decision Before Dawn (1951) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Anatole Litvak.

Cast

• Richard Basehart as Lt. Dick Rennick
• Gary Merrill as Col. Devlin
• Oskar Werner as Cpl. Karl Maurer - aka Happy
• Hildegard Knef as Hilde
• Dominique Blanchar as Monique
• O.E. Hasse as Col. Oberst von Ecker
• Wilfried Seyferth as Heinz Scholtz, SS-Mann
• Hans Christian Blech as Sgt. Rudolf Barth - aka Tiger
• Helene Thimig as Fräulein Schneide
• George Tyne as Sgt. Griffin
• Robert Freitag as Sgt. Paul Richter
• Harold Benedict as Lt. Pete Gevers
• Arno Assmann as Ernst Brandenbacher (uncredited)
• Heinrich Berg as (uncredited)
• Bert Brandt as German NCO (uncredited)
• Jochen Diestelmann as (uncredited)
• Ulrich Folkmar as Prisoner (uncredited)
• Otto Friebel as Clerk (uncredited)
• Gert Fröbe as German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
• Werner Fuetterer as von Bülow (uncredited)
• Elfe Gerhart as Barmaid (uncredited)
• Loni Heuser as Fritzi Kollwitz (uncredited)
• Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe as German NCO (uncredited)
• Charles Jacquemar as Volkssturmmann (uncredited)
• Walter Janssen as Fiedl (uncredited)
• Erik Jelde as German NCO (uncredited)
• Klaus Kinski as Whining Soldier (uncredited)
• Gerhard Kittler as German Lieutenant (uncredited)
• Til Kiwe as Adjutant (uncredited)
• Klaus W. Krause as German NCO (uncredited)
• Walter Ladengast as German Deserter (uncredited)
• Maria Landrock as Wehrmacht Girl (uncredited)
• Herbert Lehnert as (uncredited)
• Adi Lödel as Kurt (uncredited)
• Peter Lühr as von Schirmeck (uncredited)
• Emil Matousek as (uncredited)
• Wolf Petersen as (uncredited)
• Charles Regnier as German Prisoner (uncredited)
• Arnulf Schröder as Old Prisoner of War (uncredited)
• Paul Schwed as Man on Wehrmacht Bus (uncredited)

Crew

• Anatole Litvak — Director
• Anatole Litvak — Producer
• Frank McCarthy — Producer
• Peter Viertel — Screenplay
• Franz Planer — Director of Photography
• George Howe — Novel
• Franz Waxman — Original Music Composer

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