Daybreak is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Jacques Feyder and written by Cyril Hume and Ruth Cummings.

The film stars Ramon Novarro, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith, William Bakewell and Karen Morley.

At a party with his officer friends at a Vienna nightspot, Willi spots the lovely young music teacher Laura Taub.

Helen goes back to the sleazy Herr Schnabel and becomes the kind of person that she thinks that Willi thought that she was, drinking, gambling and whoring around.

Being too proud to ask his uncle General Von Hertz for the money and facing disgrace as a member of the Royal Imperial Guard, Willi has only one option left open to him: a bullet to the head.