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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.
Anti-Fascist German engineer Kurt Muller returns to the United States in 1940, with his American-born wife Sara and their three children, after spending 17 years in Europe, where Kurt has engaged in underground resistance to the rising Nazi threat.
Watch on the Rhine is a 1941 American play by Lillian Hellman. In an essay on World War II, a contributor to The Companion to Southern Literature (2002) wrote that the play's "peculiar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with sinister corruption of the Nazi regime in Europe made for a unique and powerful drama, one ...
- Lillian Hellman
- 1941
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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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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.
