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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-fascist in this film. [3]
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 ...
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, World War I, and World War II.
Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; 26 May 1894 – 15 August 1971) was a Hungarian actor.He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, for his performance in the film Watch on the Rhine (1943), reprising the role he created on the Broadway stage.
Watch on the Rhine (German:Die Wacht am Rhein or Aus des Rheinlands Schicksalstagen) is a 1926 German silent historical film directed by Helene Lackner and starring Hans Mierendorff, Ernst Winar and Gustav Adolf Semler. [1] The film's art direction was by Karl Machus.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published a scathingly negative review by Dietmar Dath.Summing up the novel's attitude as "cool retro-fascism from the future", the reviewer wrote that the authors' main aim (apart from propagating crude stereotypes about European countries) seemed to be to pontificate about the perceived failings of Western society, such as pacifism and environmentalism, to ...
Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films.He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging or conducting, when he was fifteen.
Watch on the Rhine (1943), a film based on Lillian Hellman's play "Watch on the Rhine" (German: Unternehmen: Wacht am Rhein), the German ground offensive in late 1944 on the Western Front that set off the Battle of the Bulge; Wacht am Rhein, a 1977 board wargame that simulates the Battle of the Bulge; Watch on the Rhine (2007), a science ...