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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 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, 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.
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, which opened 1 April 1941, was a call to arms to the American public, who, Hellman felt, were too complacent about the menace of Fascism, which she had experienced firsthand in the Spanish civil war.
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 behind has changed. 421 IMDb 7.1 1 h 51 min 1943. X-Ray 13+.
Watch on the Rhine. Available on iTunes. Bette Davis and Paul Lukas star in this multiple Academy Award-nominated drama based on Lillian Hellman's daring play as adapted by the acclaimed Dashiell Hammett.
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.
Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother’s home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt’s attache case full of money and Kurt’s working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany.
