The Hour Before the Dawn
W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!
1944 | 75m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Frank Tuttle |
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| Writer: | Michael Hogan, W. Somerset Maugham |
| Staring: |
| 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 |
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| Director: | Frank Tuttle |
| Writer: | Michael Hogan, W. Somerset Maugham |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance, War |
| Keywords | world war ii, nazi spy, austrian |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Apr 03, 2025 Entered: Apr 30, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| 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 |
| Name | Job |
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| Michael Hogan | Writer |
| Bertram C. Granger | Set Decoration |
| Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| A. Earl Hedrick | Art Direction |
| Stuart Gilmore | Editor |
| Frank Tuttle | Director |
| W. Somerset Maugham | Novel |
| John F. Seitz | Director of Photography |
| Miklós Rózsa | Original Music Composer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 4 | 338 | 501 |