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The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)

5.5 | May 10, 1944 (US) | Drama, Romance, War | 01:15

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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Veronica Lake
Dora Bruckmann
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Franchot Tone
Jim Hetherton
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John Sutton
Roger Hetherton
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Binnie Barnes
May Hetherton
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Henry Stephenson
Gen. Hetherton
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Philip Merivale
Sir Leslie Buchanon
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Nils Asther
Kurt van der Breughel
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Edmund Breon
Freddy Merritt
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David Leland
Tommy Hetherton