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starring: Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondidirected by: Hal Mohr, Herman Shumlin
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790749037
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0790749033
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 15669
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 27, 1943
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Description:
Film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's World War II play about a German man and his wife being pursued by Nazi agents in Washington, D.C.
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Rating:  - Drama about Political Intrigue
Some ordinary men warned against the power of Nazi Germany and the threat to Europe and the whole world. A small family enters the USA as refugees. A steam locomotive takes them from the southwest to their destination in Washington DC: a large mansion owned by a rich and powerful widow. Her daughter Sarah married married a German who moved to Rumania. Son-in-law Kurt used to work for Dornier Aircraft, but is now in the business of fighting fascism. Sarah's sister is married to a Rumanian who plays ... Read More
Rating:  - Paul Lukas' Much Deserved Oscar
This well-written play by Lillian Hellman that was adapted for film by her partner, Dashiell Hammett, is amazing in many ways. First off, Bette Davis took a secondary role for Paul Lukas to have the lead that he developed on the stage, Lucile Watson jumps off the screen as Bette's mother, and the children's odd accents don't even matter due to the excellent dialogue and meaning of this film.
Rating: - There were good Germans too. They weren't all Nazis.
First of all, none of this movie takes place in Europe. It takes place in or near Washington DC. By 1940, Europe had been plunged into darkness. Bette Davis is Sara Muller & she has been in Europe for the last 17 years. She is married to a German anti-facist freedom fighter Karl Muller, played by Paul Lukas. They have three kids. They have fled to the United States which is still a year & a half away from war. They are welcomed into Sara's childhood home by her mother, the wealthy & influential ... Read More
Rating: - Watch On The Rhine
Bette Davis in a timeless story of heroisum in the holocaust years.
Watch On The Rhine is an Academy Award winning classic that the NY Times called "The finest motion picture about the realities of war that Hollywood has yet to made." With a brilliant script co-created by Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman from her widely-acclaimed play, the film tells the gripping story of a man who has the courage to stand up to the Nazis - no matter what the cost. Bette Davis is magnificent as the American ... Read More
Rating: - "I do what must be done."
Bette Davis stars in "Watch on the Rhine" as Sara Muller, the daughter of a well-connected Washington political family. Sara is married to a German (Paul Lukas), and they return to America after living for many years in Europe. Her family is puzzled by the somewhat mysterious Lukas, especially when they hear that he has been fighting fascism in Europe. Slowly the pieces start to fall in place, which attracts the attention of others as well.
"Watch on the Rhine" is a solid WWII film that tackles ... Read More
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