Evening star., 1952-02-03
The Posing Show
The Posing Show
People Will Talk
Of Film on I reason.
Decision Before Down Moy Earn
Most uIked-of Movie Honors
By Joy cormodY

It would be fine thing George Howe Washington architect
should have written the mosakedof movie Of the
Just what constitutes the most talked movie
determined indeed has the relative volume
Of talk induced by films precisely measured
Undoubtedly its dramatic stature its cost and running time clearly
this title for Gone With the Wind in its day and much
later Jane Rues role in did the same thing for THE Outlaw
otherwise -taked-of movie is mostly something
talked Of by persons just talking
New Film Exceptionally Potent
Decision Before Dawn has exceptional qualifications to
inspire widespread and thoughtful talk.
Its theme subject fraught with the direst OF
consequences for the entire human species Wnat MI owe a 70
represents by means the last word He H however
gifted thought dramatic and lar
reaching aspect Of treason and whose thinking has resulted IN
fascinating motion picture
out of its phosophic hiding place and
available people looking for something to say at the
his novel, Call It Treason" presents
dramatic history which invites easy discussion
He Grew Up Hitler Youth
He wrote about young German soldier This POLITICALLY
sensitive medical copsman Hlers
them the time he falls captive
the American armies advancing the Rhine time and events
completely aenated him from Na doctrine He believes
thinks he believes that only through defeat Of Naz
decency among the nations Of the world
the young played with such conviction
by viennese Actor oskar Werner traitor?
The simple black-and-whte answer to this tWo-ponged
But Mr. Howes story German spy employed by
American Intelligence lets off with such superficial
it finds there two concepts OF Germany one homeland OF
fundamentally decent human beings the other political mad
normal human creature
Fights for Germany by Fighting Aeoinst Her
the young German conceives his patriotic duty it is to
Aght with who fighting against the second Germany
Everything to hasten its destruction will contribute TO
the homeland he enySage the ideal
and the judgment of the Americans
who employ desperate intelligence mission the hero OF
Decision of He is instead
patriot uniformed soldier still fighting to give his country
victory its internal evils and not the
enemy poised its borders.
Decision Dawn" is masterpiece of by the
of deferrng until the heroic SpyS
judgment his conduct He has given himself and his
intelligence unit possible assurance that ne believes
his outward act of treason genuine act OF patriotism
Tests Come Behind Germon Lines
of the tests it will meet however he is behind
the again? How will he feel when he is bacG
soil mingng with his people watching them fight
only thing left to them, their very lives?
decision the outside of Germany looking in
something else when again the inside looking
out determined chosen the
principle which live there enough of challenge that
any may betray that WILL betray
him to German intelligence
thus that by delaying the ultimate effect of the heros
the reasonable patriotic thing do that
Decision Before Dawn becomes film of unfogettabe excite
thus also that it qualities for the distinction of
becoming the most -taked-of picture of its year.
subject matter and treatment its tmelneSs
tionaly irresistible