The Hour Before the Dawn
“W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!”
1944•NR•1h 15m•6.4•Released
DramaRomanceWar
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.
Director
Frank Tuttle
Writer
Michael Hogan
Languages
English
Studio
Paramount Pictures
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
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