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Storyline is worthy of a remake...


I saw this movie when I was a kid in the '60s and caught in recent years on Turner Classic Movies. For whatever flaws the movie has, the storyline is top notch material that rates with other spy movie fare, except Decision has an active war as a basis, which most spy movies don't.

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I disagree. Any remake made now of this film would lack the most important element...the actual locations in Germany, still in ruins from the war. The gritty black-and-white feel of the movie gives its authentic flavor.

Let's skip the remake of this movie and make an action picture of another episode that happened around the same time in Germany: the saga of Task Force Baum and the failed raid on the POW camp at Hammelburg. Now, that's a movie begging to be made !

CmdrCody

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Hmm...I think I agree with CmndrCody. This movie was suspenseful and had such an authentic feel to it, and it was done without a slew of marquis names because the subject matter and riveting performances is what pulled you in. Unfortunately, Hollywood misses the mark with remakes a lot of the time when they cram it full of flavor-of-the-day actors and lose sight of the materiality and suspense of the film, which is so much more important. I'd pass on a remake. Turn your friends on to this great movie, but don't ask for a remake of this flawless film.

"...and I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids."

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...with Julian Assange in the roll of the "line crosser." *wink*

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Count me in as being against a remake. I'm really tired of all the remakes that have been done on older movies just because they're not in color or they don't have a big-name actor. Take, for example, A Star Is Born. Just how many remakes will we see? And for each remake, they get worse.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.



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The elementary storyline in "Decision Before Dawn" has been fantastically and unintentionally re-incarnated as "Infernal Affairs" in 2002, and then "The Departed" in 2006, both of those having a cops/criminals basis.

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No remake please.



When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

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I'd agree with you that a remake would be interesting, but in today's PC Hollywood, they'd probably ruin it.

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