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The FRiday Night Movie - Decision Before Dawn (1951)
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Posted on 08/08/2014 7:53:32 PM PDT by DemforBush

This week's offering is a gripping combination of war film and spy thriller based on a real life Allied program to recruit German POW's to spy for them behind German lines. Richard Basehart, Gary Merill, and Oskar Werner star. In English with Spanish subtitles.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: movie; movies; spy; ww2
This is a good one. Werner is especially good as the idealistic and conflicted young German "Happy". 7.5/10.

Sorry about the subtitles, btw. My other source for the film was deleted a while back.

1 posted on 08/08/2014 7:53:32 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: verga

ping


2 posted on 08/08/2014 8:08:31 PM PDT by DemforBush (Six o'clock in *Berlin*. They were having lunch in Cleveland.)
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To: DemforBush

This is a real sleeper. Even if I piss you off 5 times a day, watch this. This is the best snapshot of the front line security measures the Germans used against their own that ive ever seen.
It has a real time and place feel and a ton of realism filmed in the rubble. Don’t miss it guys.


3 posted on 08/08/2014 8:22:32 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DemforBush

Sounds good ping


4 posted on 08/08/2014 8:45:26 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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Excellent film! A real look at Germany in the last years of the war—with tight control of everyone by the government.

Filmed amid actual ruins.


5 posted on 08/08/2014 9:01:07 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: DesertRhino

Just finished watching the whole thing —extremely good post, great movie.

Poor guy.

Thanks..! ^_^


6 posted on 08/09/2014 4:28:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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