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Hold Back the Dawn
79
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100
TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
A touching and memorable film, this brilliant romance offers evocative performances by Boyer and de Havilland.
83
IndieWire
IndieWire
[Wilder] delivered one of the finest critiques of a pre-war, isolationist U.S. committed to “America First.”
80
The New York Times
Bosley Crowther
The New York Times
Bosley Crowther
An amazingly poignant picture, rich in humor, heart and subtle ironies.
80
Time Out
Time Out
This romantic weepie is both moving and effectively stylish.
80
Variety
Variety
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.
80
The Observer (UK)
The Observer (UK)
Smoothly orchestrated entertainment. [30 Apr 2000, p.10]
70
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Mitchell Leisen's polished direction serves this 1941 melodrama written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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