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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 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Paul Lukas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Kurt Muller, a German-born anti ...
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 strong enough to win the New York Drama Critics ...
Caesar's Rhine bridges. Coordinates: 50°24′48″N 7°28′24″E. Caesar's Rhine Bridge, an 1814 portrait by John Soane. The Italian cross-section of the bridge. Reconstruction in Koblenz of a Roman pile driver, used to build the Rhine bridges. Caesar's bridges across the Rhine, the first two bridges on record to cross the Rhine river, were ...
Germania on Guard on the Rhine, Hermann Wislicenus, 1873. " Die Wacht am Rhein " ( German: [diː ˈvaxt am ˈʁaɪn], The Watch on the Rhine) is a German patriotic anthem. The song's origins are rooted in the historical French–German enmity, and it was particularly popular in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.
List This list includes both existing and former bridges over the Rhine, sorted by the sections of the river. Within each section, bridges are listed according to their sequence in direction of flow of the river. Railway bridges are marked with an *, tramway bridges with a #. Railway bridges, are listed with the nearest train stations on the left and right banks. Otherwise the two ...
The Ludendorff Bridge (sometimes referred to as the Bridge at Remagen) was a bridge across the river Rhine in Germany which was captured by United States Army forces in early March 1945 during the Battle of Remagen, in the closing weeks of World War II, when it was one of the few remaining bridges in the region and therefore a critical ...
John Frost Bridge ( John Frostbrug in Dutch) is the road bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherlands . The bridge was inaugurated after the end of World War II, and is named after Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912–1993), who commanded the British forces that reached and temporarily defended the pre-existing Rijnbrug ("Rhine Bridge") at the same location during the Battle of ...
Under the Bridge adapts, with some creative license, the true-crime book about Reena’s case by Rebecca Godfrey, played in the series by executive producer Riley Keough.