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Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin and starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukas. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman.
Bette Davis stars as the wife of a German anti-Nazi engineer who returns to the US with his family and faces a threat from a Romanian count. The film, based on a play by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, won an Oscar for Paul Lukas as Best Actor.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
- 1943-08-27
Watch on the Rhine - (Original Trailer) Nazi agents pursue a German freedom-fighter and his family to Washington in Watch on the Rhine (1943), with Paul Lukas & Bette Davis, from Lillian Hellman's play.
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the 1943 film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's play. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, composers and more on IMDb.
A 1940 film starring Bette Davis as a German refugee who returns to the US with her family and faces a Nazi threat. Read the critics' ratings, watch the trailer, and find out where to stream or rent the movie.
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- Bette Davis
- Herman Shumlin
- Warner Bros.
179M subscribers. Subscribed. 139. Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe, only to find everything they left...
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Watch on the Rhine, drama in three acts by Lillian Hellman, published and produced in 1941. Performed just eight months before the United States entered World War II, Hellman’s play exposed the dangers of fascism in America, asserting that tyranny can also be battled on the home front.
