# Decision at Midnight

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{{Short description|1963 British film by Lewis Allen}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Decision at Midnight
| image = Decision at Midnight.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = [Lewis Allen](/source/Lewis_Allen_(director))
| producer = Lewis Allen <br> [Scoville Wishard](/source/Scoville_Wishard)
| writer = Alan Thornhill
| starring = [Martin Landau](/source/Martin_Landau) <br> [Nora Swinburne](/source/Nora_Swinburne) <br> [Walter Fitzgerald](/source/Walter_Fitzgerald)
| music = [Paul Dunlap](/source/Paul_Dunlap)
| cinematography = [Harold Rosson](/source/Harold_Rosson)
| editing = [Harry Marker](/source/Harry_Marker)
| studio = 
| distributor = 
| released = {{Film date|1963}}
| runtime = 93 minutes
| country = United Kingdom <br> United States
| language = [English](/source/English_language) 
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Decision at Midnight''''' (also known as '''''Music at Midnight''''') is a 1963 American-British [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Lewis Allen](/source/Lewis_Allen_(director)) and starring [Martin Landau](/source/Martin_Landau), [Nora Swinburne](/source/Nora_Swinburne) and [Walter Fitzgerald](/source/Walter_Fitzgerald).<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Decision at Midnight |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150156156 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref><ref>Goble p.460</ref>

==Plot==
Adaptation of the play 'Music at Midnight', of an Iron Curtain country revolutionary leader who is inspired to talk over things with the dictator after the revolt has failed and come to a mutual arrangement.<ref name="bfi._Deci">{{Cite web |title=Decision at Midnight (1963) |author= |work=[BFI](/source/BFI) |date= |access-date=12 March 2019 |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b709e4dfc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030125432/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b709e4dfc|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 30, 2020}}</ref> (''[BFI](/source/BFI) synopsis.'')

==Cast==
* [Martin Landau](/source/Martin_Landau) as Nils  
* [Nora Swinburne](/source/Nora_Swinburne) as Margaret  
* [Walter Fitzgerald](/source/Walter_Fitzgerald) as Prime Minister  
* [Torin Thatcher](/source/Torin_Thatcher) as Southstream  
* [Esmond Knight](/source/Esmond_Knight) as Peter Hauser  
* [John Forrest](/source/John_Forrest_(actor)) as Stephen  
* [Oscar Beregi Jr.](/source/Oscar_Beregi_Jr.) as Chief Marshal  
* [David Janti](/source/David_Janti) as Kurtz  
* [Charles Cameron](/source/Charles_Cameron_(actor)) as Ambassador  
* [Violet Rensing](/source/Violet_Rensing) as Lena  
* [Rudolph Anders](/source/Rudolph_Anders) as Uncle  
* [Hilary Wontner](/source/Hilary_Wontner) as Forbes  
* [Donald Simpson](/source/Donald_Simpson) as Head waiter 
* [William Pawley Jr.](/source/William_Pawley_Jr.) as Reporter

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0167879}}

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