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# Decision Before Dawn (1951): cast and crew

48 cast and 13 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Richard Basehart](https://film.one/person/richard-basehart.md) as Lt. Dick Rennick
- [Gary Merrill](https://film.one/person/gary-merrill.md) as Col. Devlin
- [Oskar Werner](https://film.one/person/oskar-werner.md) as Cpl. Karl Maurer - aka Happy
- [Hildegard Knef](https://film.one/person/hildegard-knef.md) as Hilde
- [Dominique Blanchar](https://film.one/person/dominique-blanchar.md) as Monique
- [O.E. Hasse](https://film.one/person/o-e-hasse.md) as Col. Oberst von Ecker
- [Wilfried Seyferth](https://film.one/person/wilfried-seyferth.md) as Heinz Scholtz, SS-Mann
- [Hans Christian Blech](https://film.one/person/hans-christian-blech.md) as Sgt. Rudolf Barth - aka Tiger
- [Helene Thimig](https://film.one/person/helene-thimig.md) as Fräulein Schneide
- [George Tyne](https://film.one/person/george-tyne.md) as Sgt. Griffin
- [Robert Freitag](https://film.one/person/robert-freitag.md) as Sgt. Paul Richter
- [Harold Benedict](https://film.one/person/harold-benedict.md) as Lt. Pete Gevers
- Arno Assmann as Ernst Brandenbacher (uncredited)
- Heinrich Berg as (uncredited)
- Bert Brandt as German NCO (uncredited)
- Jochen Diestelmann as (uncredited)
- Ulrich Folkmar as Prisoner (uncredited)
- Otto Friebel as Clerk (uncredited)
- [Gert Fröbe](https://film.one/person/gert-frobe.md) as German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
- Werner Fuetterer as von Bülow (uncredited)
- Elfe Gerhart as Barmaid (uncredited)
- Loni Heuser as Fritzi Kollwitz (uncredited)
- Alexander Kraft-Hohenlohe as German NCO (uncredited)
- Charles Jacquemar as Volkssturmmann (uncredited)
- Walter Janssen as Fiedl (uncredited)
- Erik Jelde as German NCO (uncredited)
- [Klaus Kinski](https://film.one/person/klaus-kinski.md) as Whining Soldier (uncredited)
- Gerhard Kittler as German Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Til Kiwe as Adjutant (uncredited)
- Klaus W. Krause as German NCO (uncredited)
- Walter Ladengast as German Deserter (uncredited)
- Maria Landrock as Wehrmacht Girl (uncredited)
- Herbert Lehnert as (uncredited)
- Adi Lödel as Kurt (uncredited)
- Peter Lühr as von Schirmeck (uncredited)
- Emil Matousek as (uncredited)
- Wolf Petersen as (uncredited)
- Charles Regnier as German Prisoner (uncredited)
- Arnulf Schröder as Old Prisoner of War (uncredited)
- Paul Schwed as Man on Wehrmacht Bus (uncredited)
- Kai-Siegfried Seefeld as (uncredited)
- Uli Steigberg as (uncredited)
- Peter Martin Urtel as German Soldier (uncredited)
- Rudolf Vogel as Volkssturmmann (uncredited)
- Hans von Morhart as Prisoner of War (uncredited)
- Jaspar von Oertzen as Prisoner of War (uncredited)
- Maria Wimmer as Woman in the Street (uncredited)
- Harald Wolff as Hartmann (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Anatole Litvak](https://film.one/person/anatole-litvak.md): Director

## Writing

- George Howe: Novel
- [Peter Viertel](https://film.one/person/peter-viertel.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [Anatole Litvak](https://film.one/person/anatole-litvak.md): Producer
- [Frank McCarthy](https://film.one/person/frank-mccarthy.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Franz Planer](https://film.one/person/franz-planer.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Dorothy Spencer](https://film.one/person/dorothy-spencer.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Franz Waxman](https://film.one/person/franz-waxman.md): Original Music Composer
- Leonid Raab: Conductor
- Alfred Bruzlin: Sound
- Harry M. Leonard: Sound

## Art

- Ludwig Reiber: Art Direction

## Crew

- [Gerd Oswald](https://film.one/person/gerd-oswald.md): Second Unit

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