

The Hour Before the Dawn
DirectorFrank Tuttle
“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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The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) Original Trailer [HD]
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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