First Comes Courage

First Comes Courage (1943)

I married you to destroy you!

Drama War

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.

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  • Release Date: 1943-07-29
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Director: Dorothy Arzner

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    • Cast

    • Merle Oberon

      Nicole Larsen

    • Brian Aherne

      Capt. Allan Lowell

    • Carl Esmond

      Maj. Paul Dichter

    • Isobel Elsom

      Rose Lindstrom

    • Fritz Leiber

      Dr. Aanrud

    • Erville Alderson

      Soren

    • Erik Rolf

      Ole

    • Reinhold Schünzel

      Col. Kurt von Elser

    • Richard Ryen

      Dr. Hoff

    • Lewis Wilson

      Dr. Kleinich

    • Fern Emmett

      Dress Designer (uncredited)

    • Byron Foulger

      Norwegian Shopkeeper (uncredited)

    • Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

      Nazi Captain (uncredited)

    • John Elliott

      Norwegian patient

    • Greta Granstedt

      Girl assistant

    • William Phillips

      Edvard, Aanrud's assistant

    • Pietro Sosso

      Janitor

    • Conrad Binyon

      Boy

    • Arno Frey

      Sergeant

    • Eric Feldary

      Private

    • Henry Rowland

      Private

    • Hans von Morhart

      German guard

    • Ethel Griffies

      Nurse

    • Walter Thiele

      Orderly

    • John Royce

      German orderly

    • Frederic Brunn

      German guard

    • Lloyd Ingraham

      Elderly Norwegian man

    • Louis Adlon

      Nazi lieutenant

    • Niels Bagge

      Thorsten

    • Rex Williams

      Young Nazi officer

    • Otto Reichow

      Young Nazi officer

    • Fern Emmett

      Dress designer

    • Guy Kingsford

      Submarine commander

    • Louis Jean Heydt

      First Norwegian (uncredited)

    • Nelson Leigh

      Blake

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