First Comes Courage

First Comes Courage (1943)

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.

Erscheinungsdatum
1943-07-29
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (11)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 28 Min.
Genres
Drama, Kriegsfilm
Regie
Dorothy Arzner

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Gedreht in: Britisch-Kolumbien

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.

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.

Oberon and Aherne had played the leads in Beloved Enemy in 1936, with David Niven in a large supporting role.

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