The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)

Name: The Hour Before the Dawn
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1944-05-10
Duration: 75 min
Cast: Veronica Lake, Franchot Tone, John Sutton, Binnie Barnes, Henry Stephenson

W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!

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.

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Released 1944-05-10 · 75 min · Drama, Romance, War

Directed by Frank Tuttle

Cast

Veronica Lake as Dora Bruckmann
Franchot Tone as Jim Hetherton
John Sutton as Roger Hetherton
Binnie Barnes as May Hetherton
Henry Stephenson as Gen. Hetherton
Philip Merivale as Sir Leslie Buchanon
Nils Asther as Kurt van der Breughel
Edmund Breon as Freddy Merritt
David Leland as Tommy Hetherton
Mary Gordon as Annie
Raymond Severn as Jim (as a boy)
Aminta Dyne as Mrs. Muller