First Comes Courage

First Comes Courage

88 mins | Drama, War | July 29, 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.

First Comes Courage

88 mins | Drama, War | July 29, 1943

First Comes Courage
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title First Comes Courage
Directors Dorothy Arzner
Writers Melvin Levy, Elliott Arnold

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

Fern Emmett

as Dress Designer (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as Norwegian Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

as Nazi Captain (uncredited)