Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Decision before dawn [videorecording] / 20th Century Fox ; screen play by Peter Viertel ; director of photography, Frank Planer ; produced by Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy ; directed by Anatole Litvak.

Edition:

Full frame.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US Army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information.

Subjects:

United States. Army -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 -- Campañas -- Alemania -- Teatro

Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 Prisioneros y prisiones -- Teatro.

War films.

Feature films.

Germany -- Drama.

Other Author:

Viertel, Peter.

Planer, Franz E., 1894-1963.

Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974.

McCarthy, Frank, 1912-1986.

Basehart, Richard, 1914-1984.

Merrill, Gary.

Werner, Oskar, 1922-1984.

Knef, Hildegard, 1925-2002.

Blanchar, Dominique.

Hasse, Otto Eduard, 1903-1978.

Seyferth, Wilfried, 1908-1954.

Blech, Hans Christian, 1925-1993.

Thimig-Reinhardt, Helene, 1889-1974.

Freitag, Robert, 1916-

Tyne, George.

Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967.

Spencer, Dorothy, 1909-2002.

Raab, Leonid.

Howe, George Locke. Call it treason.

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Other Title:

Heroes of war collection, frontline combat.

Notes:

Based on the novel "Call it treason" by George Howe.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.

Also issued as part of the Heroes of war collection, frontline combat.

Special features: Fox Movietone news clips; Original theatrical trailer.

Music, Franz Waxman ; art direction, Ludwig Reiber ; film editor, Dorothy Spencer ; orchestration, Leonid Raab ; sound, Alfred Bruzlin, Harry M. Leonard.

Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegarde Neff, Dominique Blanchar, O.E. Hasse, Wilfried Seyferth, Hans Christian Blech, Helene Thimig, Robert Freytag, George Tyne.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., Dolby Digital mono., dual-layer.

In English or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher Number:

2233881

Other Number:

69020210

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

424511

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Decision

Medium:

[videorecording]