2 Movies Starring Lucile Watson

Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1943-08-27

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (2510 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Dashiell Hammett (screen play)

Lillian Hellman (additional scenes and dialogue)

Lillian Hellman (from the stage play by)

Fullplot:

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. 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.

The Emperor Waltz

The Emperor Waltz

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1948-07-02

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (971 Reviews)

Director:

Billy Wilder

Cast:

Writer:

Charles Brackett

Billy Wilder

Fullplot:

Traveling Salesman Virgil Smith wants to sell his Grammophones in pre-WWI Austria. To enhance this, he especially wants to sell one to Emperor Franz Joseph, but at first the Austrian palace guards think he is carrying a bomb. He meets the Countess Johanna von Stolzenberg-Stolzenberg and after the usual misunderstandings, falls in love with her, this is especially assisted by his dog Buttons. But the relation between a Countess and an ordinary U.S. citizen cannot work in Austria, that is the Emperor's opinion. Is he wrong ?

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