Before I Wake (U.S. title: Shadow of Fear; also known as Decoy be Damned) is a 1955 British mystery film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Mona Freeman, Jean Kent and Maxwell Reed.

Returning home to England from the United States following news of her father's sudden death in a boating accident, April Haddon meets her stepmother Florence for the first time.

When her father's will is read, it becomes clear that the redrawn will Florence had been expecting had never been completed and the old will still stands, leaving most of his inheritance to April in three weeks when she turns twenty one.

[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Wholehearted melodrama, complete with wicked stepmother, glass of poisoned milk, sinister side-glance and hypodermic syringe.

As the malevolent Florence, Jean Kent gives a somewhat over-obvious performance, relying for effect on a limited range of meaningful grimaces.