Hold back the dawn (1941) - lesser known drama from director Mitchell Leisen, starring Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Godard and Walter Abel

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 116 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033722/

Cast

Charles Boyer ... Georges Iscovescu
Olivia de Havilland ... Emmy Brown
Paulette Goddard ... Anita Dixon
Victor Francen ... Van Den Luecken
Walter Abel ... Inspector Hammock
Curt Bois ... Bonbois
Rosemary DeCamp ... Berta Kurz
Eric Feldary ... Josef Kurz
Nestor Paiva ... Fred Flores

Description: Romanian gigolo Georges Iscovescu is trying to get into the United States to become a citizen. Because of the visa requirement, he instead travels to Tijuana, Mexico to cross into the States via the land border, not realizing that this situation has its own obstacles, namely the quota system per country, Romanians who have up to an eight year wait. In joining the queue in Tijuana, he ends up at the Hotel Esperanza which houses many of those in his similar situation. In running into an old colleague he met in Europe, the former Polish-Australian Anita Dixon now divorced US citizen Mrs. Shaughnessy - she a female version of him - he decides to do what she did to become a US citizen: get married to an American, Mr. Shaughnessy who she quickly divorced after getting her citizenship. After a few missteps in finding an American to marry, Georges sets his sights on schoolteacher Emmy Brown, a woman naive in the affairs of the heart, in Mexico with her class on a field trip. What happens between Georges and Emmy is affected by: the presence of Mr. Hammock, a US immigration inspector who is trying to clamp down on marriages of convenience, the presence of Mrs. Shaughnessy, who will do whatever is required to ply her trade with him, the two of them together who she sees as the perfect match in being the same; and Georges' own ideas of what best to do with Emmy.

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Video and audio information:

Video : 1.95 GB, 2407 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 640x480 (4:3), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 157
Audio : 85/65 MB (main/commentary), 103/79 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Italian) posters and screenshots included


Dual audio track information


This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)