Bette Davis
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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 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. Watch on the Rhine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Paul Lukas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for ...
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.
Watch On The Rhine (1943) -- (Movie Clip) First Week Of April, 1940 The opening, from Dashiell Hammett's screenplay based on Lillian Hellman's play, Bette Davis as ex-pat Sara, with German husband Kurt (Paul Lukas) and kids (Donald Buka, Eric Roberts, Janis Wilson), entering the wartime U.S.A from Mexico, in Watch On The Rhine, 1943.
The family is made up of Sarah, the mother; Kurt (Paul Lukas), the German father; Joshua, the eldest son; Babby, the cute, innocent little girl; and Bodo, the baby of the family who likes to use big words and tries to act intelligent. Meanwhile, Sarah's mom, Fanny (Lucille Watson) is preparing for her daughter's homecoming.
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The radio version of Lillian Hellman's play Watch on the Rhine, starring Paul Lukas, as performed on August 7, 1946, on the Academy Award Theater radio show. 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 ...
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...
