The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!
74 min
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.
- Release date
- May 10, 1944
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Franchot Tone as Jim Hetherton
- Veronica Lake as Dora Bruckmann
- John Sutton as Roger Hetherton
- Binnie Barnes as May Heatherton
- 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
- Aminta Dyne as Hertha Parkins
Crew
- Frank Tuttle · Director
- W. Somerset Maugham · Writer
- Lesser Samuels · Writer
- Michael Hogan · Writer
- Miklós Rózsa · Composer
- John F. Seitz · Cinematographer
- Stuart Gilmore · Editor