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Director
  
Dorothy Arzner

Music director
  
Ernst Toch

Country
  
United States

6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
War, Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

First Comes Courage movie poster

Release date
  
July 29, 1943 (1943-07-29)

Based on
  
Commandos, novel by Elliott Arnold

Writer
  
Elliott Arnold (novel), Melvin Levy (screenplay), Lewis Meltzer (screenplay), George Sklar (adaptation)

Screenplay
  
Elliott Arnold, Lewis Meltzer, Melvin Levy

Cast
  
Merle Oberon
(Nicole Larsen),
Brian Aherne
(Capt. Allan Lowell),
Carl Esmond
(Maj. Paul Dichter),
Isobel Elsom
(Rose Lindstrom),
Fritz Leiber
(Dr. Aanrud)

Similar movies
  
Related Dorothy Arzner movies

Tagline
  
I married you to destroy you!

First comes courage


First Comes Courage is a 1943 American war film, the final film directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the few female directors in Hollywood at the time. The film was based on the 1943 novel Commandos by Elliott Arnold, adapted by George Sklar, with a screenplay by Melvin Levy and Lewis Meltzer. It stars Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne.

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Plot

Nicole Larsen (Merle Oberon) is a member of the Norwegian resistance in a small town, about to be married to the Nazi commandant (Carl Esmond). When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him - an assassin who happens to be her former lover, Capt. Allan Lowe (Brian Aherne).

Cast

  • Merle Oberon as Nicole Larsen
  • Brian Aherne as Capt. Allan Lowell
  • Carl Esmond as Maj. Paul Dichter
  • Isobel Elsom as Rose Lindstrom
  • Fritz Leiber as Dr. Aanrud
  • Erville Alderson as Soren
  • Erik Rolf as Ole
  • Reinhold Schünzel as Col. Kurt von Elser

    • Production

    First Comes Courage had the working title of "Attack by Night". The film was originally to have been set in France, but was changed to Norway because of the public's interest at the time in the occupation of that country.

    When director Dorothy Arzner had an attack of pleurisy, she was replaced by Charles Vidor. The film would turn out to be Arzner's final film.

    Some scenes were filmed on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with military units providing extras for the scenes of the commando attack.

    References

    First Comes Courage Wikipedia
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    First Comes Courage IMDb First Comes Courage themoviedb.org