This movie has been used as a teaching tool in some film-making classes. Also, the depiction of late-war Germany and the level of detail, is unequalled. Turner Classic rates it very high.
I really don’t care what innie others think of it , I just know it’s one of my favorite movies especially war movies! I do know they screwed up the name of the movie.
The movie made a clear distinction between Nazi, or nationalist, militarist fanatics, & the Germans who were not, during the last few months of World War II. It was a grim, extremely dangerous, & often tragic situation. Decent people tended to get shot. I found the movie engrossing, filmed as it was in the ruins of German cities not long after the end of the war, & using some German actors, both men & women, who had lost various parts of their bodies because of the war. IMO, pretty gritty realism, & well done.
The actual post war wreckage of Germany is impressive, giving this film an authenticity few other movies can match. The all star cast was great, Oscar Werner stealing the show.
The real name of the movie is "Decision Before Dawn". Anytime you search World War 2 movies this is one of the top 10 movies that come up. It's not a bad movie.
Yes, and I really loved the acting of Oscar Verner. He was great in Fahrenheit 450, the original version as Montag. He was in WWII in the Wehrmacht Nazi army but he was NOT a Nazi. He had done some acting when in his teens and used that to pretend that he was mentally defective so as to get out of being sent to the front. He even married a Jewish girl and hid out in the woods till the war was over.
I've always really loved Oscar Verner! Even when he's old, in films like Ship Of Fools, a wonderful film that's packed with different stars! Everyone should see that! Sadly, like all super good looking male actors of his time, he died very young. Of a heart attack I think.
Yeah, me to and I"m always sad when those great actors destroy themselves due to their own mental maladies. He experienced such horrors in his real life before acting that I'm sure caused much of his deconstruction of the self. Like other actors in his class, he has such an ease of it and so believable in his moment. Camera rolls and he's ON!
@54:40 That castle on the hill in the background is Schloss Marienberg. There was a wonderful restaurant up there where you could dine outdoors while overlooking the city. I was stationed in Wuerzburg from 85 to 88. One of my favorite things about this movie is seeing some of my favorite cities as they were shortly after the war.
Spotted a young Klaus Kinski @10:13 so went digging for more info - turns out the film is actually titled Decision Before Dawn (though not uncommon for films to have different titles in different markets) and was one of the first movies to show Germans in a more sympathetic light. Thanks for the upload.
Good movie. Goes to show how some men are willing to help against their own country to possibly help save it in the end. Realism was excellent. Thanks for posting. Joe S
This is NOT Behind Enemy Lines. it is Decision Before Dawn, a 1951 B&W film with Gary Merrill, Richard Basehart, Oscar Werner and Hans Christian Blech. It's actually a good movie (even if Cinematic Euphoria think it's something else.) It tells the story of the 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. It is also one of the first films after World War II to portray the German people--outside of the Nazi regime--in a sympathetic light. Behind Enemy Lines is another movie entirely starring Owen Wilson, also a good film. Still another movie from 1985 by the tile Behind Enemy Lines has Hal Holbrook, Ray Sharkey and David McCallum,(also a good film). Too much confusion tough about film titles.
Thanks for the upload! Oskar Werner was in the German army in real life and was married to a German Jew! He deserted and he and his wife hid in the woods the last part of the war. Check him out in the Austrian film, The Last Ten Days. Someone put it up with English subs or maybe I used the AI translator CC. Good flick about the Hitler bunker!
Sometimes the name is changed in Europe or America by the producers, because they think the overseas audience will respond better to the other name. It's also often changed in a later re-release for the same reason. But sometimes it's a useless attempt at copyright evasion. Like a great many other movies on YT, the reason it's still here and has not taken down by YT is that the copyright is not actively being protected. It's not because the channel is run by a genius who has discovered an effective way to fool the system. SO MANY movies have had the start and end chopped off to evade a copyright strike from YT, but YT is not so incredibly dumb that they can be fooled that way. I repeat, if a movie is still here, it's not being actively persued by the owner of the copyright. The channel owners are not the geniuses they seem to think they are in butchering the movies by chopping both ends off.
Oscar Werner also starred in Fahrenheit 451 where he played a similar role of being on the run. His acting was excellent as was the entire cast. Dbl thumbs up movie.
"chrisreeves8037," . . . Oh, and his "Columbo" with fellow guest star Gena Rowlands as his ultra-wealthy, wheelchair-confined wife is one of the best, some think. 'Playback' from 1975 in which they're both excellent -- as is Peter Falk [police Lt. Columbo], as usual.
It is the 1951 film Decision Before Dawn, which has been on dvd for some time now. Perhaps the poster figured by renaming it, it would skip the YT censors, but it does not work that way. It only ever went under one title.
"phantom629," Oh, were Richard Basehart still alive he would LOVE to hear "i cant watch Basehart without thinking about 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" -- NOT !! It was known he despised his job on the show, but an expensive divorce settlement made it necessary for him to take and continue with the series.
Oskar Werner (Happy) was a German deserter during WWII. Hans Christian Blech (Tiger) fought on the Russian front. That's how he got those facial scars. Wonder how they got along on the set?
My father was musician that fought in the Pacific theater in WWW 2, he played the organ on an aircraft carrier toward the end of the war and saw no action. He loved his time in the Navy and the FDR government that created the G. I. Bill payed his way to college. This by the way was Harvard College.
Yes, that is the real title of the movie -- Decision Before Dawn -- which was nominated for Best Picture at the 1952 Academy Awards and for Best Editing btw. Why it was posted on RUclips with a false title, I don't know. I've seen the movie a few times over the years, the first time when I was a little kid with my babysitter, and I remember my first vague memory of some of the scenes. According to Wikipedia, this film was one of General Douglas MacArthur's favorites. It's taken for granted now, but much of the movie was shot in post-war Germany while still under Allied occupation, with the death and destruction and the Nazi regime still quite fresh in people's minds there as well as seen in the real, ruined buildings in the German cities where many of the scenes were shot. Those are not scenery sets erected for the movie. The German actors lived through the Nazi period in Germany, some of them were granted draft deferments because the Nazis wanted them to continue acting in films that raised the morale of the German soldiers. Oskar Werner was a draft dodger and pacifist who had to hide from the Gestapo. Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels in real life tried to hit on the actress who plays the disillusioned hooker in the film -- Hildegard Knef, but she rejected him. Fortunately, nothing happened to her as a consequence. I also find it amazing how many of these native German actors were fluent in English, even just after the war, which means they learned English while living under the Nazis since they remained in Germany throughout the Hitler years.
Interesting. Thanks. Well, these German actors learned to speak English fluently somehow in the German school system. They certainly are too fluent to assume they learned English to that level in just a short time after the war. And unlike Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich who left Germany for the US out of protest against Hitler, these actors all stayed for better or for worse and lived through it. They were lucky. One big movie actress in Nazi Germany who like these actors remained in Germany and appeared in film and stage productions there produced by the Nazi entertainment industry -- Lizzi Waldmüller -- was killed in an Allied bombing raid on Vienna towards the end of the war in very early 1945.
@@jody6851 Re your your comments on the fluency in English of the native German actors, I've deleted my reply containing the quote from John G, the retired university lecturer in German, because it's irrelevant. Although he's correct, he's much too specific: he's only talking about when English became MANDATORY in schools. What's much more important and relevant is that English has been taught in German schools since the 19th century (although maybe not in all schools and not in all regions and probably not for students of all ages). For more details, take a look at a 2014 paper entitled "The Foreign Language Curriculum in Northern German schools (1850-1900)" by T. Giesler in OpenEdition Journals. "The modern foreign languages French and (later) English found their way into the German curricula over the course of the 19th century," Giesler says.
1:02:20 - Scarily true what the soldier said. "...No matter what they do, they will never get us out of their system." Thank you for uploading this great movie.
Yes the real title is "Decision Before Dawn". Why its listed as Behind Enemy Lines escapes me. The latter title is a much newer film. Oskar Verner is excellent
I do believe that German Soldier was only trying to save more lives on both sides knowing that the War was lost & Hitler didn’t give a darn who he got killed even after the facts so I wouldn’t call him a traitor at all , only a man who had a compassion for life , that simple !!!
Wonderful movie - and look up the remarkable story of Hildegard Knef, who unforgettably played the tavern prostitute. It's almost as remarkable as the movie itself.
@@jsmith498 She's also in DIPLOMATIC COURIER (1952) with Tyrone Power, an excellent movie (which, like this one, is free on RUclips) about Cold War spies.
Título original: Decision Before Dawn 1951 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. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. It is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
"davidweston9115," I've seen 'Playback' as many times as this movie, about half a dozen times, so I can qualify that you're wildly off mark when you state he plays an 'old man' on "Columbo." In fact he's the luminous, elegant Gena Rowlands' younger, stud husband in that TV movie mystery.
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Very realistic. Why English all the way ? German has to be used too and subtitled in English.
I wonder why 'Happy' started the film wearing a Obergefreiter's collar tabs (three wings) but when he escaped at the checkpoint on the Rhine Bridge his collar tabs showed the lower rank of Gefreiter (two wings) but he retained the two chevrons on his sleeve?
He reduced his rank because when he read the papers of the German soldier who was tasked to keep watch over him, he read that his identity was compromised and the Germans would have him killed… hence why he threw his papers into the water. Being a corporal would have been too obvious, a dead giveaway, that he was the traitor they were seeking. That, or two wings fell off, as you can see the middle is missing on his right chest, and the bottom is missing on his left. Regardless, they knew he was not Steiner.
@04:50 The U.S. soldier hands over the German Officer's pistol, sorry that would never have happened. In fact. the Com. Officer would have pulled rank on the jeep driver and kept it for himself as a souvenir.
The bootleggers are at it again - cutting out the opening credits to avoid prosecution and then attaching a false title. This film is "Decision Before Dawn".
Another false title- this is Decision Before Dawn, which I've seen many times, but our 'host' tricked me into clicking again. Congrats. Play by the rules and stop tricking people.
@@jimwoo9552 It's not. Other posts get it right and earn their 'clicks'- this guy cheats. Happens often- if you don't report stuff it keeps going on. Takes a few clicks to stop the cheats.
I watched this one while going through severe withdrawl from pain meds after abdominal surgery. The movie is okay, if a bit dark; but I won't watch it again... ;-)
"thatguyinelnorte," Yeah, so we really want to judge a person's take on a movie when she / he is watching it in the WORST POSSIBLE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES -- instead of lying on the couch or sittin' in the easy-chair recliner with a 'cold one' at hand and bowl of popcorn in our lap with our significant other enjoying it just as much as we are. "The movie is . . . a bit dark . . . " Oh, like WW II is supposed to be a lark; a walk in the park? NOT. . . . "A bit dark" -- it IS dark. In summation: not the brightest Comment; far, FAR from it. "Congratulations on your recovery."
There is a few lines in this movie that relate to the USA. I can only shake my head in amazement and think of what all those brave men who died fighting under the American flag would say if they could see America today!
Name of the movie all elsewhere. One wonders WHY someone HAS to change it's title? Just like they did with The Last Outpost. Some weasel renamed it Cavalry Charge.
Just come across this today and can’t believe a lot of the German uniforms in this are actually original. As are the vehicles, this film could never be made today. It would cost so much money to kit out the cast with this kind of gear. Absolutely amazing!😘🙏
The first german soldier (speaking english)... isnt he the tame guard in the great escape? The one that gets his wallet stolen? Think he was a real knights cross recipient...
"richardsimms251," Ah, so judgemental, smarter, so enlightened, and holier-than-though when in fact the U.S. Surgeon General's report of the dangers of smoking tobacco didn't come out until 1964 -- when 46% of adult Americans smoked cigarettes. Causes of death by contagious diseases, weather related [freezing in the European theater; excessive heat in the Pacific theater], drowning [e.g., D-Day landing's high fatality rate], contaminated drinking water, non-sanitary surgical procedures and battlefield medics' shortage of sterile instruments and supplies, starvation in those notorious, sub-human, Japanese POW prisons / camps, suicide, etc. COMBINED would give "death by bullets" 'a run for its money.' Hindsight ALWAYS has the benefit of being 20/20.
This movie has been used as a teaching tool in some film-making classes. Also, the depiction of late-war Germany and the level of detail, is unequalled. Turner Classic rates it very high.
you don't say? well that's one for the books. I'm just a couple, or a few minutes into it, & I myself already like it.
I really don’t care what innie others think of it , I just know it’s one of my favorite movies especially war movies! I do know they screwed up the name of the movie.
The movie made a clear distinction between Nazi, or nationalist, militarist fanatics, & the Germans who were not, during the last few months of World War II. It was a grim, extremely dangerous, & often tragic situation. Decent people tended to get shot. I found the movie engrossing, filmed as it was in the ruins of German cities not long after the end of the war, & using some German actors, both men & women, who had lost various parts of their bodies because of the war. IMO, pretty gritty realism, & well done.
The actual post war wreckage of Germany is impressive, giving this film an authenticity few other movies can match. The all star cast was great, Oscar Werner stealing the show.
Oskar Werner had one of my all-time favorite speaking voices.
The real name of the movie is "Decision Before Dawn". Anytime you search World War 2 movies this is one of the top 10 movies that come up. It's not a bad movie.
Absolutely loved how this film came together, Loved Richard Basehart and Gary Merrill's performances. Tight action and performances!
As a true story, those men of German decent made a sacrifice to save their own country we seldom see today. Great acting and thanks for sharing.
the cigarette flicking in the mouth was a bit over the top.....🤫
Descent?
@@thankyoudriver4219- We all know what he meant 🙄
This is not acting - this is reliving those times
Isn’t this film title ==.decision before dawn ?
Yes, and I really loved the acting of Oscar Verner. He was great in Fahrenheit 450, the original version as Montag.
He was in WWII in the Wehrmacht Nazi army but he was NOT a Nazi.
He had done some acting when in his teens and used that to pretend that he was mentally defective so as to get out of being sent to the front. He even married a Jewish girl and hid out in the woods till the war was over.
Ur correct
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I've always really loved Oscar Verner! Even when he's old, in films like Ship Of Fools, a wonderful film that's packed with different stars! Everyone should see that! Sadly, like all super good looking male actors of his time, he died very young. Of a heart attack I think.
Yeah, me to and I"m always sad when those great actors destroy themselves due to their own mental maladies.
He experienced such horrors in his real life before acting that I'm sure caused much of his deconstruction of the self.
Like other actors in his class, he has such an ease of it and so believable in his moment.
Camera rolls and he's ON!
Decision Before Dawn, 1951.Nominated for Best Picture Oscar. Very good reviews.
@54:40 That castle on the hill in the background is Schloss Marienberg. There was a wonderful restaurant up there where you could dine outdoors while overlooking the city. I was stationed in Wuerzburg from 85 to 88. One of my favorite things about this movie is seeing some of my favorite cities as they were shortly after the war.
Bloody marvellous movie one of my favourites
Great film.
The scenes showing destroyed and damaged cities are amazing. The film was shot before these areas were rebuilt after WW2.
What’s more the remnants of the real German army were used as extras with their real uniforms.
Spotted a young Klaus Kinski @10:13 so went digging for more info - turns out the film is actually titled Decision Before Dawn (though not uncommon for films to have different titles in different markets) and was one of the first movies to show Germans in a more sympathetic light. Thanks for the upload.
Some old movies are really better, more interesting than recents one and this one is.
Indeed
Cracking flick, regardless of its title. Still love black & white….🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿
Good movie. Goes to show how some men are willing to help against their own country to possibly help save it in the end. Realism was excellent. Thanks for posting. Joe S
Oskar was a great guy, feel bad for what he went through being a gentle man😮
decision before dawn. 1951
Had never heard of this film until this week. Great find. Well-acted. Different take on the war.
This is NOT Behind Enemy Lines. it is Decision Before Dawn, a 1951 B&W film with Gary Merrill, Richard Basehart, Oscar Werner and Hans Christian Blech. It's actually a good movie (even if Cinematic Euphoria think it's something else.) It tells the story of the 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. It is also one of the first films after World War II to portray the German people--outside of the Nazi regime--in a sympathetic light. Behind Enemy Lines is another movie entirely starring Owen Wilson, also a good film. Still another movie from 1985 by the tile Behind Enemy Lines has Hal Holbrook, Ray Sharkey and David McCallum,(also a good film). Too much confusion tough about film titles.
True
A very good war film helped by using authentic locations,thanks for posting.
Thanks for the upload! Oskar Werner was in the German army in real life and was married to a German Jew! He deserted and he and his wife hid in the woods the last part of the war. Check him out in the Austrian film, The Last Ten Days. Someone put it up with English subs or maybe I used the AI translator CC. Good flick about the Hitler bunker!
Hans Christian Blech also served in the Wehrmacht and received his facial scars on the Eastern Front.
Werner was in so many great films! My favorite is Ship Of Fools, with an elderly Vivien Leigh and an aging Simone Signoret, and many other stars.
I remember this as DECISION BEFORE DAWN. Why change the title? It is a good movie
Sometimes the name is changed in Europe or America by the producers, because they think the overseas audience will respond better to the other name. It's also often changed in a later re-release for the same reason.
But sometimes it's a useless attempt at copyright evasion. Like a great many other movies on YT, the reason it's still here and has not taken down by YT is that the copyright is not actively being protected. It's not because the channel is run by a genius who has discovered an effective way to fool the system.
SO MANY movies have had the start and end chopped off to evade a copyright strike from YT, but YT is not so incredibly dumb that they can be fooled that way. I repeat, if a movie is still here, it's not being actively persued by the owner of the copyright. The channel owners are not the geniuses they seem to think they are in butchering the movies by chopping both ends off.
Oscar Werner also starred in Fahrenheit 451 where he played a similar role of being on the run. His acting was excellent as was the entire cast. Dbl thumbs up movie.
And Ship Of Fools, a GREAT film!
"chrisreeves8037," . . . Oh, and his "Columbo" with fellow guest star Gena Rowlands as his ultra-wealthy, wheelchair-confined wife is one of the best, some think. 'Playback' from 1975 in which they're both excellent -- as is Peter Falk [police Lt. Columbo], as usual.
I think this film is actually the famous "Decision Before Dawn" starring the superb Oskar Werner.
Thanks for that, I don't understand why these uploaders use the wrong movie titles.
It is the 1951 film Decision Before Dawn, which has been on dvd for some time now. Perhaps the poster figured by renaming it, it would skip the YT censors, but it does not work that way. It only ever went under one title.
@@Skully317 I think it's because copyright issues......
A great movie !
This isn't "Behind Enemy Lines", this is "Decision Before Dawn" from 1951.
If they use the real name it will be taken down.
Enjoy it for free.
@@fryertuck6496 Not true I have watched several movies on RUclips that are listed under their real name.
@@Halfgig57 Are they still there?
I greatly doubt it, software scans the internet for such things which then triggers a take down request.
@@fryertuck6496 just checked, still available by other uploaders
Old school Richard Baseart....I used to love him in voyage to the bottom of the sea as a kid !!!!
I loved that show.
A fine World War Two Black and White movie from the 1950’s.
yes indeed, most certainly I myself agree, couldn't agree with you more I don't think, & unless of course I myself am mistaken
the vw beetle @55:25 i think is post war. i cant watch basehart without thinking about voyage to the bottom of the sea
The VW existed before and during the war. Created by a man name Porsche ..
"phantom629," Oh, were Richard Basehart still alive he would LOVE to hear "i cant watch Basehart without thinking about 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" -- NOT !!
It was known he despised his job on the show, but an expensive divorce settlement made it necessary for him to take and continue with the series.
@scvandy3129 I was a little kid that loved submarine movies, Jesus!
Oskar Werner (Happy) was a German deserter during WWII.
Hans Christian Blech (Tiger) fought on the Russian front. That's how he got those facial scars.
Wonder how they got along on the set?
A desserter...or a man of conscience and moral fortitude?
@@heatherhinde6544 That's the question, isn't it?
@@heatherhinde6544 A desserter ... a man who makes apple pie a la mode, Boston cream pie and Sticky Toffee Pudding?
Incredible good movie.
Agreed, well put together. Great acting and very believable.
My father was musician that fought in the Pacific theater in WWW 2, he played the organ on an aircraft carrier
toward the end of the war and saw no action. He loved his time in the Navy and the FDR government that created
the G. I. Bill payed his way to college. This by the way was Harvard College.
nobody cares
@@MaxJames597yompfitness = prick
Great movie, never saw it before. Loved it.
These scenes are INCREDIBLE! GOD BLESS
Always liked this movie! A good guy faced with difficult decisions and is always trapped by difficult decisions and on the run from his fate!?
Grossartiger Film. Wundervolle Schauspieler.
Oskar Werner also starred in Ship of Fools in a terrrific performance as the ship's doctor
I loved that movie! I've seen it 4 times!
I watched the movie years, it’s good but sad at the same.
AKA, "Decision Before Dawn" --1951
An extremely good movie. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thanks for this upload!...very interesting...
Decision Before Dawn is an excellent movie with excellent cast.
Decision Before Dawn yes not behind lines
Yes, that is the real title of the movie -- Decision Before Dawn -- which was nominated for Best Picture at the 1952 Academy Awards and for Best Editing btw. Why it was posted on RUclips with a false title, I don't know. I've seen the movie a few times over the years, the first time when I was a little kid with my babysitter, and I remember my first vague memory of some of the scenes. According to Wikipedia, this film was one of General Douglas MacArthur's favorites. It's taken for granted now, but much of the movie was shot in post-war Germany while still under Allied occupation, with the death and destruction and the Nazi regime still quite fresh in people's minds there as well as seen in the real, ruined buildings in the German cities where many of the scenes were shot. Those are not scenery sets erected for the movie. The German actors lived through the Nazi period in Germany, some of them were granted draft deferments because the Nazis wanted them to continue acting in films that raised the morale of the German soldiers. Oskar Werner was a draft dodger and pacifist who had to hide from the Gestapo. Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels in real life tried to hit on the actress who plays the disillusioned hooker in the film -- Hildegard Knef, but she rejected him. Fortunately, nothing happened to her as a consequence. I also find it amazing how many of these native German actors were fluent in English, even just after the war, which means they learned English while living under the Nazis since they remained in Germany throughout the Hitler years.
Interesting. Thanks. Well, these German actors learned to speak English fluently somehow in the German school system. They certainly are too fluent to assume they learned English to that level in just a short time after the war. And unlike Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich who left Germany for the US out of protest against Hitler, these actors all stayed for better or for worse and lived through it.
They were lucky. One big movie actress in Nazi Germany who like these actors remained in Germany and appeared in film and stage productions there produced by the Nazi entertainment industry -- Lizzi Waldmüller -- was killed in an Allied bombing raid on Vienna towards the end of the war in very early 1945.
@@jody6851
Re your your comments on the fluency in English of the native German actors, I've deleted my reply containing the quote from John G, the retired university lecturer in German, because it's irrelevant. Although he's correct, he's much too specific: he's only talking about when English became MANDATORY in schools. What's much more important and relevant is that English has been taught in German schools since the 19th century (although maybe not in all schools and not in all regions and probably not for students of all ages). For more details, take a look at a 2014 paper entitled "The Foreign Language Curriculum in Northern German schools (1850-1900)" by T. Giesler in OpenEdition Journals. "The modern foreign languages French and (later) English found their way into the German curricula over the course of the 19th century," Giesler says.
1:02:20 - Scarily true what the soldier said.
"...No matter what they do, they will never get us out of their system."
Thank you for uploading this great movie.
Yes the real title is "Decision Before Dawn". Why its listed as Behind Enemy Lines escapes me. The latter title is a much newer film. Oskar Verner is excellent
So he can bypass RUclips copyright.
Behind Enemy Lines is a movie about the Serb, Bosnian War.
yes, the title is wrong. this is decision before dawn.
The Motor Bike Courier was a good actor......😉
Thank you
Click on this what a gem!
The correct title of this film is Decision Before Dawn. It also appears on YT under the title Deceptive Pact.
I do believe that German Soldier was only trying to save more lives on both sides knowing that the War was lost & Hitler didn’t give a darn who he got killed even after the facts so I wouldn’t call him a traitor at all , only a man who had a compassion for life , that simple !!!
good movie
Fantastic sets . B/w sets better than color.
Wonderful movie - and look up the remarkable story of Hildegard Knef, who unforgettably played the tavern prostitute. It's almost as remarkable as the movie itself.
There is a wiki article on her
Yes, I recognised her from a film I watched two months ago, The Man Between. Striking looks.
@@jsmith498 She's also in DIPLOMATIC COURIER (1952) with Tyrone Power, an excellent movie (which, like this one, is free on RUclips) about Cold War spies.
In fact, Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels had the hots for her and often hit on her, but she refused him. Fortunately, without any consequence.
Título original: Decision Before Dawn 1951
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. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. It is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Oscar Werner .... a VERY Good German actor, with many parts over many years.
He was born in Vienna and an Austrian actor! O.E.Hasse is also playing a role , he was German and spoke with a deep voice! I liked him very much!
Werner appeared in Truffant's "Fahrenheit 451" good sci--fi
Klaus Kinski was already the psycho back then...
Great!
Oskar Werner so cute as usual. See him as old man in Columbo episode "Playback"
"davidweston9115," I've seen 'Playback' as many times as this movie, about half a dozen times, so I can qualify that you're wildly off mark when you state he plays an 'old man' on "Columbo." In fact he's the luminous, elegant Gena Rowlands' younger, stud husband in that TV movie mystery.
Very realistic. Why English all the way ? German has to be used too and subtitled in English.
1:14ish Same Chateau as in, Paths of Glory???
Why do you care about a hat??
I wonder why 'Happy' started the film wearing a Obergefreiter's collar tabs (three wings) but when he escaped at the checkpoint on the Rhine Bridge his collar tabs showed the lower rank of Gefreiter (two wings) but he retained the two chevrons on his sleeve?
He reduced his rank because when he read the papers of the German soldier who was tasked to keep watch over him, he read that his identity was compromised and the Germans would have him killed… hence why he threw his papers into the water. Being a corporal would have been too obvious, a dead giveaway, that he was the traitor they were seeking. That, or two wings fell off, as you can see the middle is missing on his right chest, and the bottom is missing on his left. Regardless, they knew he was not Steiner.
Takes place in my hometown Mannheim, I recognize some of the locations
you're German? how's it over there now, huh?
@@awokeorasleepgodsaves. Much better, no more ruins
@04:50 The U.S. soldier hands over the German Officer's pistol, sorry that would never have happened. In fact. the Com. Officer would have pulled rank on the jeep driver and kept it for himself as a souvenir.
The bootleggers are at it again - cutting out the opening credits to avoid prosecution and then attaching a false title. This film is "Decision Before Dawn".
I had hoped it wasn't DbD. Then there would be another Oskar Werner movie!
Shame a good guy got caught right at the end
Good film. Thanksalot
great film and realistic
Not a bad movie.
Another false title- this is Decision Before Dawn, which I've seen many times, but our 'host' tricked me into clicking again. Congrats. Play by the rules and stop tricking people.
Maybe it's a copyright issue ?
@@jimwoo9552 It's not. Other posts get it right and earn their 'clicks'- this guy cheats. Happens often- if you don't report stuff it keeps going on. Takes a few clicks to stop the cheats.
Well photography is well done. B/W is rich and better than color!
Very young Klaus Kinsky in one episode.
I kind of like vintage classic movie-flicks with a touch of the modern day, & age. you know what I mean? you know what i'm saying?
At 10 minutes, I am sure that the man interviewed is Klaus Kinski!!!
Yes, he is listed on idmb as the whining soldier.
he is
That is right… good spotting
I had seen this movie.
It's real title is: Decision Before Dawn.
i havent seen this in years
I watched this one while going through severe withdrawl from pain meds after abdominal surgery. The movie is okay, if a bit dark; but I won't watch it again... ;-)
Why?
Sorry for your pain whatching else misery deflects your own pain. i understansd
That's exactly what I'm doing..
@@davidallcock6316 Ha. Good one!
"thatguyinelnorte," Yeah, so we really want to judge a person's take on a movie when she / he is watching it in the WORST POSSIBLE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES -- instead of lying on the couch or sittin' in the easy-chair recliner with a 'cold one' at hand and bowl of popcorn in our lap with our significant other enjoying it just as much as we are.
"The movie is . . . a bit dark . . . " Oh, like WW II is supposed to be a lark; a walk in the park? NOT. . . . "A bit dark" -- it IS dark.
In summation: not the brightest Comment; far, FAR from it. "Congratulations on your recovery."
Last few lines of the end text applies to the USA now...😮
There is a few lines in this movie that relate to the USA. I can only shake my head in amazement and think of what all those brave men who died fighting under the American flag would say if they could see America today!
@@geoffmower8729 improvement takes time, no different than the hole that was dug which required a concerted effort of the past 4 very long years...
16:27 an early role by Chris Penn.
You're so clever.... :(
THIS is Decision Before Dawn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This isn't the first mis-named movie I've found on youtube.
Adverts every 4 minutes!! Practically spoils the entire movie on the yt channel. Come on, what's the point of showing the movie?
get an ad blocker?
RUclips shot me off until I capitulated.@@sailordude2094
At 31 minutes I'm thinking you are right! I think I'll watch it on a different channel.
How many times can this film be re titled for clicks. Report made.
Decision Before Dawn - name of movie in USA
Many thanks...
Name of the movie all elsewhere. One wonders WHY someone HAS to change it's title? Just like they did with The Last Outpost. Some weasel renamed it Cavalry Charge.
@@CarlEvans-t6h It's been mentioned that they do that for "Copyright" reasons.
What is the real name of this film? Anyone know?
Decision Before Dawn
Momma Bear this Papa Bear over!
Another stolen movie renamed! Grrr...
Post 1947 C-47. Red bar on the markings.
Glad pedantry is alive a kicking in 2024.
Get a life!
" DECISION AT DAWN" ?????
That´s the real title.
@@kafercabrio1303No, it’s “Decisions Before Dawn.” Google is your friend, as they say
@@kafercabrio1303No, it’s ‘Decisions Before Dawn.’
Just come across this today and can’t believe a lot of the German uniforms in this are actually original. As are the vehicles, this film could never be made today. It would cost so much money to kit out the cast with this kind of gear. Absolutely amazing!😘🙏
Klaus Kinski??
The first german soldier (speaking english)... isnt he the tame guard in the great escape? The one that gets his wallet stolen? Think he was a real knights cross recipient...
The guy that you mean was Robert Graf. He died in 1966. He did not participate in this film.
@@klaus-peterkubiak7795 you are indeed correct. I found the guy, Oskar Werner. Complete opposite of Robert Graf. Thank you!
Adverts every few minutes guarantees I won't watch them, buy the shit peddled and always skip.
I never saw a single advert.
Wher is audio
Contact Hogan at Stalag 13.
If the story is true, should we find out what happened to "Happy" ? Or assume he was dead?
Right at the beginning of the film the man being shot by firing squad looked like Happy. Assume it was him.
I think "Happy" was a composite representation of the many(?) Germans who switched sides near the end for whatever reason(s).
Peccato vhe non è tradotto
If bullets did not harm these soldiers on both sides, then the cigarettes eventually did harm them.
The cigarettes at that time had no added chemicals.
you can say that again, brotha, preach, & teach, preach, & teach
"richardsimms251," Ah, so judgemental, smarter, so enlightened, and holier-than-though when in fact the U.S. Surgeon General's report of the dangers of smoking tobacco didn't come out until 1964 -- when 46% of adult Americans smoked cigarettes. Causes of death by contagious diseases, weather related [freezing in the European theater; excessive heat in the Pacific theater], drowning [e.g., D-Day landing's high fatality rate], contaminated drinking water, non-sanitary surgical procedures and battlefield medics' shortage of sterile instruments and supplies, starvation in those notorious, sub-human, Japanese POW prisons / camps, suicide, etc. COMBINED would give "death by bullets" 'a run for its money.'
Hindsight ALWAYS has the benefit of being 20/20.