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A touching and memorable film, this brilliant romance offers evocative performances by Boyer and de Havilland.
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[Wilder] delivered one of the finest critiques of a pre-war, isolationist U.S. committed to “America First.”
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An amazingly poignant picture, rich in humor, heart and subtle ironies.
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This romantic weepie is both moving and effectively stylish.
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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.
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Smoothly orchestrated entertainment. [30 Apr 2000, p.10]
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Mitchell Leisen's polished direction serves this 1941 melodrama written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
