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- 1941
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1941
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Summary Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Directed By: Mitchell Leisen
- 1941
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1941
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Hold Back the Dawn
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Summary Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Directed By: Mitchell Leisen
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Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
79
100% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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A touching and memorable film, this brilliant romance offers evocative performances by Boyer and de Havilland.
[Wilder] delivered one of the finest critiques of a pre-war, isolationist U.S. committed to “America First.”
Smoothly orchestrated entertainment. [30 Apr 2000, p.10]
While Hold Back the Dawn is basically another European refugee yarn, scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder exercised some ingenuity and imagination and Ketty Frings' original emerges as fine celluloidia.
An amazingly poignant picture, rich in humor, heart and subtle ironies.
Mitchell Leisen's polished direction serves this 1941 melodrama written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures
Release Date Sep 26, 1941
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating Approved
Tagline Three great stars in the story of love...coldly conceived from a man's need, and a woman's desire! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Midway Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - June 14, 1944)
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 6 Nominations
Photoplay Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
