FIRST COMES COURAGE
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SAYS one of the characters: "In Norway to-day there is no place for personal feelings." Well, I don’t know about Nor-
way, but there is plenty of place for them in this film-7890 feet to be exact. Merle Oberon is a Norwegian secret agent with a large estate, who pretends to be a quisling; Brian Aherne isa captain in the British Army who fell in love with her years ago during a ski-ing holiday, and looks her up again in the course of a commando job; and Carl Esmond is the very confiding Nazi commandant of the town of Stavik, who tells Miss Oberon practically everything that British Intelligence wants to know. To help the Cause, Miss Oberon renounces the captain and marries the Nazi, but the commandos arrive in time to spoil their weddingnight. However, she still puts the Cause before the captain, and there is a sad, sweet parting at the fiord’s. brink. First Comes Courage was directed by @ woman, Dorothy’ Arzner, but suffers nothing on that account from feminine squeamishness; the throat-cutting and back-stabbing by the commandos is as bluggy, bold and resolute as anything Hollywood has shown us,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 264, 14 July 1944, Page 31
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196FIRST COMES COURAGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 264, 14 July 1944, Page 31
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