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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.
Watch on the Rhine: Directed by Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr. With Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson. A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family, but a Romanian count complicates their plans.
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.
Unscrupulous Romanian count Teck de Brancovis (George Coulouris), a houseguest of Sara's family in Washington, D.C., discovers Kurt's secret and threatens to expose his...
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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.
YouTube Movies & TV. 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...
Complete summary of Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Watch on the Rhine.
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 ...
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance.
