Movie

First Comes Courage

Released: July 29, 1943 (1943)

Runtime: 88 minutes

Genres: 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.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Fritz Leiber as Dr. Aanrud
Age at release: 61
Erville Alderson as Soren
Age at release: 60
Richard Ryen as Dr. Hoff
Age at release: 57
Reinhold Schünzel as Col. Kurt von Elser
Age at release: 54
Isobel Elsom as Rose Lindstrom
Age at release: 50
Brian Aherne as Capt. Allan Lowell
Age at release: 41
Carl Esmond as Maj. Paul Dichter
Age at release: 41
Merle Oberon as Nicole Larsen
Age at release: 32
Erik Rolf as Ole
Age at release: 32
Lewis Wilson as Dr. Kleinich
Age at release: 23

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Pietro Sosso as Janitor
Age at release: 73
Lloyd Ingraham as Elderly Norwegian man
Age at release: 68
John Elliott as Norwegian patient
Age at release: 67
Ethel Griffies as Nurse
Age at release: 65
Fern Emmett as Dress Designer (uncredited)
Age at release: 47
Hans von Morhart as German guard
Age at release: 47
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Nazi Captain (uncredited)
Age at release: 45
Byron Foulger as Norwegian Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Age at release: 44
Arno Frey as Sergeant
Age at release: 42
Greta Granstedt as Girl assistant
Age at release: 36
William Phillips as Edvard, Aanrud's assistant
Age at release: 35
Eric Feldary as Private
Age at release: 31
Henry Rowland as Private
Age at release: 29
Rex Williams as Young Nazi officer
Age at release: 26
Conrad Binyon as Boy
Age at release: 12
Walter Thiele as Orderly
Age at release: Unknown
John Royce as German orderly
Age at release: Unknown
Frederic Brunn as German guard
Age at release: Unknown
Louis Adlon as Nazi lieutenant
Age at release: Unknown
Niels Bagge as Thorsten
Age at release: Unknown