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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.
Watch on the Rhine (1943) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
The song provides the title for Lillian Hellman's cautionary pre-World War II play Watch on the Rhine (1941) and the 1943 movie based on it. In the first and second part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's 1980 epic film adaptation of Alfred Döblin 's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Franz Biberkopf starts singing the song (as in the novel).
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.
