Porta D'Oro (La) (DVD)

Barcode

8056351623278

Department

Movies & TV

Released

29 Mar 2022

Type

Movies

Format

DVD

Genre

Drama

Sub-genre

Romance

Region

Region 2

Year

1941

Language

English

Supply Source

Europe

Title

Hold Back the Dawn

Release Year

1941

Running Time

115 min

Categories

Dramas / America / Couples / Deception / Doomed Lovers / Escape / Film Directors / Love / Melodrama / Mexico / Romance / Romances / Scams And Cons / Teachers / Tragedy

Language

English

Synopsis

HOLD BACK THE DAWN begins with a shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wandering onto a Paramount sound stage and telling his life story to director Mitchell Leisen (who actually directed this film). In flashback, we see that Boyer was once a conscienceless gigolo, desperate to flee Nazi-occupied Europe. He makes it to Mexico, where he pretends to fall in love with shy schoolteacher Olivia de Havilland. It is his plan to marry her, thus be able to enter the United States; then he intends to dump her and pursue the woman he really loves. Boyer's regeneration, and the price he pays for his previous callousness, brings HOLD BACK THE DAWN to its tearful conclusion.

Cast & Crew

Director

Mitchell Leisen

Star

Walter Abel / Charles Boyer / Olivia de Havilland / Victor Francen / Paulette Goddard

Co-Star

George Anderson / Charles Arnt / Gertrude Astor / Leon Belasco / Curt Bois / Micheline Cheirel / Chester Clute / Rosemary De Camp / Brian Donlevy / Don Douglas / Eric Feldary / Edward Fielding / John Holland / Soledad Jiminez / Veronica Lake / Madeline LeBeau / Billy Lee / Mitchell Leisen / Arthur Loft / Ray Mala / Francisco Maran / Buddy Messinger / Ella Neal / Nestor Paiva / June Pickrell / Eva Puig / Mikhail Rasumny / Tony Roux / Jesus Topete / Carlos Villarias / Richard Webb / June Wilkins / Sonny Boy Williams

Screenwriter

Charles Brackett / Billy Wilder

Source Writer

Ketti Frings

Composer

Victor Young

Director of Photography

Leo Tover

Song Composer

Fred Jacobson / Frank Loesser / Fred Speilman