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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.
- $1,099,000
- Hal B. Wallis
- August 27, 1943
Bette Davis and Paul Lukas star as a German-American couple who face a Nazi threat in Washington, D.C. The film, based on a play by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, won an Oscar for Lukas and was compared to CASABLANCA.
- Bkoganbing
- 2 min
- Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Rent Watch on the Rhine on Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy it on Prime Video, Apple TV. Anti-Fascist German engineer Kurt Muller (Paul Lukas), with his American-born wife, Sara (Bette Davis),...
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- Bette Davis
- Herman Shumlin
- Warner Bros.
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.
Find out who starred in the 1943 film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel, directed by Herman Shumlin and produced by Hal B. Wallis. See the full list of actors, writers, composers, and other crew members who worked on Watch on the Rhine.
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A German anti-Nazi engineer and his family face a threat from a Romanian count who knows his secret identity. Read the full plot synopsis, cast and crew, trivia, and user reviews of this World War 2 drama film.
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.
