First Comes Courage
66 %|Jul 29, 1943|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.
Featured Crew
Dorothy Arzner
Director
Elliott Arnold
Novel
Melvin Levy
Screenplay
Rex Bailey
Assistant Director
William Mull
Assistant Director
Harry Joe Brown
Producer
Lewis Meltzer
Screenplay
Lionel Banks
Art Direction
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
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
Nelson Leigh
Blake