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Impressionable teacher Emmy (Olivia de Havilland) is swept off her feet when she meets Georges (Charles Boyer) in a Mexican border town. Unaware that Georges is a gigolo looking for a woman who will unwittingly help him get a green card, Emmy marries him after only a few days. While carrying out the charade, Georges begins to fall for Emmy, angering his girlfriend, Anita (Paulette Goddard). As his scheme is jeopardized, Georges learns keeping Emmy may be more important than his green card.
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Genre: Romance
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Original Language: English
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Director: Mitchell Leisen
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Producer: Arthur Hornblow Jr.
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Writer: Ketti Frings
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Production Co: Paramount
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Critic Reviews for Hold Back the Dawn
Audience Reviews for Hold Back the Dawn
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An involving script drives this still timely work about immigration and the lengths people would go to to enter the United States. Charles Boyer is aptly our would be slimy immigrant lead, and Olivia DeHavilland his pure-as-the-driven-snow mark, his target, his ticket into the country. While I first disliked the premise, I was eventually won over by the work of the leads. Not bad.
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Lovely drama with some really beautiful acting particularly from Olivia de Havilland. You catch a quick glimpse of an absolutely beautiful Veronica Lake, peekaboo bang firmly in place, filming a scene for her breakthrough movie I Wanted Wings at the very beginning of the film. She shimmers like the sun in her brief seconds on scene.
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Charles Boyer is very good in this moving melodrama. I think he gets overlooked as an actor sometimes. Nice to see Olivia de Havilland sans hoop dress. Worth tracking down, TCM shows occasionally.
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a superior melodrama way under the radar. charles boyer is highly effective as a gigolo hoping to enter the u.s. by marrying a citizen. enter innocent schoolteacher olivia de havilland. paulette godard is fun as boyer's partner in crime, but their cynical plans soon go awry. most of the film takes place in mexico with lots of local color
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