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Hold Back the Dawn

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1hr 55min

Genres:

Drama,Romance

Release:

1941

Director:

Mitchell Leisen

Starring:

Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard ...more

Synopsis: Hold Back the Dawn begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life story to director Mitchell Leisen (who actually directed this film). In flashback, we see that Boyer was once a conscienceless gigolo, desperate to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. He makes it to Mexico, where he pretends to fall in love with shy schoolteacher Olivia de Havilland. It is his plan to marry her, thus be able to enter the United States; then he intends to dump her and ... Full Synopsis

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	Dan Friedman, AMG Review The late Billy Wilder was often quoted as saying that the reason why he became a director was to prevent the scripts he was writing from being butchered. The film most often cited as the straw that broke the camel's back for him is Hold Back The Dawn, co-written by Wilder and his longtime partner Charles Brackett and directed by the veteran Mitchell Leisen. A bit of a tearjerker, the film captures ... Full Review

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	Charles Boyer George Iscovesco, Georges Iscovescu Olivia de Havilland Emmy Brown Paulette Goddard Anita Dixon Victor Francen Prof. Van Den Luecken

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