Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Watch on the Rhine / Warner Bros. presents a Hal B. Wallis production ; screen play by Dashiell Hammett ; additional scenes & dialogue by Lillian Hellman ; directed by Herman Shumlin.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua will soon leave to work in the underground.

Series:

Warner Archive

Archive collection.

Subjects:

Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984 -- Film adaptations.

Dispatch cases -- Romania -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Drama.

Extortion -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.

Families -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.