First Comes Courage (1943)

Name: First Comes Courage
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1943-07-29
Duration: 88 min
Cast: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Isobel Elsom, Fritz Leiber

I married you to destroy you!

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.

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Released 1943-07-29 · 88 min · Drama, War

Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Cast

Merle Oberon as Nicole Larsen
Brian Aherne as Capt. Allan Lowell
Carl Esmond as Maj. Paul Dichter
Isobel Elsom as Rose Lindstrom
Fritz Leiber as Dr. Aanrud
Erville Alderson as Soren
Erik Rolf as Ole
Reinhold Schünzel as Col. Kurt von Elser
Richard Ryen as Dr. Hoff
Lewis Wilson as Dr. Kleinich
Fern Emmett as Dress Designer (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Norwegian Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Nazi Captain (uncredited)
John Elliott as Norwegian patient
Greta Granstedt as Girl assistant