Editing Decision Before Dawn (section)

{{Short description|1951 film by Anatole Litvak}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Decision Before Dawn
| image          = Original movie poster for the film Decision Before Dawn.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Anatole Litvak]]
| producer       = {{ubl|Anatole Litvak|[[Frank McCarthy (producer)|Frank McCarthy]]}}
| based_on       = {{based on|''Call It Treason''<br>1949 novel|[[George Howe (novelist)|George Howe]]}}
| screenplay     = [[Peter Viertel]]
| narrator       = Richard Basehart
| starring       = {{ubl|[[Richard Basehart]]|[[Gary Merrill]]|[[Oskar Werner]]|[[Hildegard Knef]]}}
| music          = [[Franz Waxman]]
| cinematography = [[Franz Planer]]
| editing        = [[Dorothy Spencer]]
| distributor    = [[20th Century-Fox]]
| released       = {{Film date|1951|12|21}}
| runtime        = 119 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| gross          = $1.55 million (US rentals)<ref>"Top Box-Office Hits of 1952", ''Variety'', January 7, 1953</ref>
}}
'''''Decision Before Dawn''''' is a 1951 American [[war film]] directed by [[Anatole Litvak]], starring [[Richard Basehart]], [[Oskar Werner]], and [[Hans Christian Blech]]. It tells the story of the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] using potentially unreliable German prisoners of war to gather intelligence as clandestine "line-crossers" in the closing days of [[World War II]]. The film was adapted by [[Peter Viertel]] and Jack Rollens (uncredited) from the novel ''Call It Treason'' by [[George L. Howe]]. The film was a critical success and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]].