Bette Davis, Beulah Bondi, Donald Woods, Eric Roberts, George Coulouris ...( see more  see more... ) , Geraldine Fitzgerald , Henry Daniell , Lucile Watson , Paul Lukas

Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington DC after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. H...( read more  read more... )e 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.

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Unrated, 114 min.

Directed by: Herman Shumlin

Release Date: August 27, 1943

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DVD Release Date: April 1, 2008

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  • October 28, 2008
    Bette Davis's supporting performce. I happen to catch this movie on AMC channel that is from Lillian Hellman's play. I got all caught up in it. I love Bette Davis's performces. I like the way that it show that not all germans were part of Nazi party. It is relates to us today to ...( read more)show that not all Muslims are terrorists. The movie shows to duty to do the greater good. the struggle of good and evil. Movie show also how americans here did not really know what was happening over in Europe, especailly Germany, during the late 1930's.
  • August 31, 2007
    Paul Lukas as an anti-Nazi resistance leader. Great movie based on the Lillian Hellman play. Bette Davis is remarkable.
  • August 15, 2007
    Bette Davis and Paul Lukas stars as a German fascist couple with children that somehow gets into the US to stay with her mother and brother, but all the while, they have a houseguest with ulterior motives of his own.
  • July 19, 2007
    All CLASSICS are GOOD
  • June 20, 2007
    a cautionary tale about the insidiousness of evil and the danger of complacency

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