First Comes Courage
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| First Comes Courage | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dorothy Arzner |
| Produced by | Harry Joe Brown |
| Music by | score by Ernst Toch |
| Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
| Editing by | Viola Lawrence |
| Studio | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 29 July 1943 |
| Running time | 88 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
First Comes Courage is a 1943 American dramatic film, the final film directed by Dorothy Arzner.
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. Little of the film shows Arzner's typical style.
[edit] 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
- Louis Adlon as Nazi Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Sven Hugo Borg as Schmidt (uncredited)
- Fern Emmett as Dress Designer (uncredited)
- Byron Foulger as Norwegian Shopkeeper (uncredited)
- Arno Frey as Sergeant (uncredited)
- Greta Granstedt as Girl Assistant (uncredited)
- Ethel Griffies as Nurse (uncredited)
- Louis Jean Heydt as Norwegian (uncredited)
- Lloyd Ingraham as Old Norwegian (uncredited)
- Paul Langton as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- Nelson Leigh as Blake (uncredited)
- Miles Mander as Col. Wallace (uncredited)
- Robert McKenzie as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
- Larry Parks as Capt. Langdon (uncredited)
- Henry Rowland as Private (uncredited)
- John Royce as German Orderly (uncredited)
- Richard Ryen as Dr. Hoff (uncredited)
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Nazi Captain (uncredited)
- Lewis Wilson as Dr. Kleinich (uncredited)
