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Hold Back the Dawn Series: Charles Boyer and The Art of Seduction [May 23 – 27] Director: Mitchell Leisen, Country: USA, Release: 1941, Runtime: 115 "The surprisingly underrated director Mitchell Leisen sends this Billy Wilder-coscripted drama into the stratosphere" - Time Out New York A pas de deux made in movie heaven, Hold Back the Dawn was written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and went on to be nominated for six Oscars: picture, screenplay, actress (de Havilland), cinematography (Leo Tover), art direction and score (Victor Young). The scene in which Emmy learns of her husband’s double-cross but remains coolly unperturbed is a marvel. De Havilland’s Emmy Brown moves from girlhood to womanhood through a delicate facial alteration, her luminous eyes hardening with the realization of a love betrayed, as the stricken Boyer wears his guilt like a badge of dishonor. A shabby immigrant (Charles Boyer) wanders onto a Paramount soundstage and tells his life story to director Mitchell Leisen (as himself). Flashback to the immigrant’s life as a calculating gigolo and nightclub dancer named Georges Iscovescu, who flees Nazi-occupied Europe and lands in a border town in Mexico. His old friend, the coolly opportunistic Anita (Paulette Goddard), encourages Georges to pursue American schoolteacher Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland) as a way of entering the U.S., and his continental routine quickly seduces the idealistic Emmy into marriage. But a border immigration official (Walter Abel) has other plans for the couple.

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