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Columbia Pictures presents

First Comes Courage

directed by Dorothy Arzner

“I married you to destroy you!”

19431h 28mNRDrama

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Columbia Pictures presents

First Comes Courage

directed by Dorothy Arzner

“I married you to destroy you!”

19431h 28mNRDrama

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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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nazi woman director

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§ Cast

8 of 35

Merle Oberon

as Nicole Larsen

Brian Aherne

as Capt. Allan Lowell

Carl Esmond

as Maj. Paul Dichter

Isobel Elsom

as Rose Lindstrom

Fritz Leiber

Erville Alderson

Erville Alderson

Erik Rolf

Reinhold Schünzel

Reinhold Schünzel

as Col. Kurt von Elser

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