Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
SpunkySelfTwitter
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
RondoHatton
"Decision Before Dawn" is a great flick, starring Richard Basehart & Oskar Werner. It was one of the first movies shown on NBC's Saturday Night At The Movies in 1961. Basehart & Gary Merrill give their usual solid performances, and Oskar Werner as the doomed Allied agent is excellent. I was 9 or 10 when I first saw it, & rented the VHS tape almost 30 years later, and was overjoyed to see how well it had stood the test of time. I was also able to rent at this video store in Eureka, California a couple more of the "Saturday Night At The Movies" offerings from back then were "The Day The Earth Stood Still"(total classic, of course) , and "Destination Gobi".......it was fare like this that spoiled me when Saturday nights on NBC got polluted with "Movies Of The Week" garbage like McCloud & others.
yonahred
Spoiler alert. While searching youtube for flix, I came across Richard basehart's voice, narrating an execution. And the camera was extremely mobile. Basehart, riding in a jeep comes across two Germans, one is Oscar werner, who I recognize, but his name eludes me. I thought of tin drum but did not do Oskar oskar. So Merrill the tough no nonsense commander lets Basehart know that recruiting German spies from the pow's is the game plan and werner volunteers. Seems to be a propaganda film asserting that the Germans are just scared and some good some bad, in 51 the alliance with west Germany needed to be sold and the earnest youngster Oskar werner was the salesman. Most poignant moments when he is recognized by a lady on a tram, who calls him by his real name and tells him where his father is now working. He calls his father, but only hears his voice like a crank caller and then he hangs up. His heart is pure and his disloyalty to his father troubles him. Basehart and the other traitor who is in it for the money are very believable, yet certainly unplumbed. It is Oskar and his comfort and discomfort with Germans- a soldier on a train, a dance hall girl, a gestapo agent, a general who needs a syringe of medicine to survive, a little boy who gets too scared to finger Basehart in a bombed out building at a fateful moment. Movie gave impression that Germany in 1950 was still in ruins.
bkoganbing
Gary Merrill and Richard Basehart are the Americans who head the cast of Decision Before Dawn, an outstanding film about the final days of World War II and the Third Reich. The film shows the scene of both the Americans who want a quick way to the heart of Germany to end the war and the Germans trying to stay alive in a situation with not many options.This film was the first introduction for American audiences to Oskar Werner who plays a young German soldier who is now a POW. An option is offered to Werner along with some other selected prisoners to now spy for the Americans as the war even from their point of view after the Battle Of The Bulge is lost. Too bad the same option couldn't be offered by the Russians on the Eastern front. A little too much personal history there.Werner's mission is to find the 11th Panzer Division and assess their strength and he's got five days to do it. He proves adept, but not quite adept enough as he eventually gets the Nazis on his trail. How he makes out is for you to see Decision Before Dawn.Werner's performance might have been something that Marlon Brando saw and made mental notes of before taking on his German role in The Young Lions. In the Brando film we see the gradual deterioration of his beliefs until he's killed a little bit after the events of this film. Werner's character is like Brando's, except he lives long enough to redeem himself in his own eyes by the work he does now.20th Century Fox spent a little money on this one with location shooting and casting of various German players who like Werner were no doubt deemed to be non-Nazi in their beliefs. Check the credits of the cast and you'll see many had long careers post World War II careers in the German cinema. As for the location shooting, a lot of that area of the Rhine border on both sides was still showing the effects of the devastation of the war. In fact besides the performances, you'll also see some of the most realistic cinematography around of World War II battle sequences, not to mention the effects of bombing of civilians.Decision Before Dawn is an outstanding war film, receiving two Oscar nominations in technical categories. It's that third Oskar you should see this film for though.
boatista24
People remember Oskar Werner for his role in Fahrenheit 451, but this was his best role in one of the best WWII films in history. The sets are spectacular and would be impossible to recreate today. Richard Basehart, typically a ham, was excellent. There were some really great WWII films, like The Train, The Two Headed Spy, Bridge on the River Kwai and Stalag 17. This one was nominated for Best Picture 1951, and truly deserved it! Toward the end of the war, Nazi Germany was struggling with a collapsed economy, broken infrastructure and a deeply damaged and demoralized population. Both sides used underhanded and conniving methods to win the war, and this true story shows just how far they were willing to go. This is a very well made movie, which was an effort to make in 1951, and would be impossible to make today.
