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The Hour Before the Dawn.

1944 film by Frank Tuttle

Isabel Allende Wins €1 Million Planeta Prize for Dictatorship Sequel

Chilean novelist Isabel Allende won Spain’s 2026 Planeta Prize, receiving €1 million for The Hour Before Dawn, a sequel to The House of the Spirits. The novel follows Alba as she faces the aftermath of imprisonment and torture under Chile’s dictatorship; Allende said its themes of authoritarianism and threatened democracy feel especially timely.

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The Hour Before the Dawn is a 1944 American drama war film directed by Frank Tuttle starring Franchot Tone and Veronica Lake. It was based on the 1942 novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

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