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First Comes Courage
UNITED STATES · 1943

First Comes Courage

Dorothy Arzner
resistance warfare forbidden romance double agent wartime espionage conflicted loyalty
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Synopsis

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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