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The Hour Before the Dawn

W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!

6.4/ 1019441h 15mNR

DramaRomanceWar

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.

Directed by Frank Tuttle

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Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake

Dora Bruckmann

Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone

Jim Hetherton

John Sutton

John Sutton

Roger Hetherton

Binnie Barnes

Binnie Barnes

May Hetherton

Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson

Gen. Hetherton

Philip Merivale

Philip Merivale

Sir Leslie Buchanon

Nils Asther

Nils Asther

Kurt van der Breughel

Edmund Breon

Edmund Breon

Freddy Merritt