Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine

1943 · 114 min · EN · 6.9 (57 votes)
Dir. Herman Shumlin · Starring Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, Beulah Bondi, George Coulouris · Music Max Steiner

“On her lonesome lips a smile.”

DramaThriller

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.

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A tense wartime thriller where family ties are tested by international espionage. The looming threat of war creates an atmosphere of suspicion and urgency, all set against a backdrop of patriotic duty.

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