Watch on the Rhine

Hal Mohr, A.S.C. was a famed movie cinematographer. In 1915, in an early example of an exploitation film peddled directly to theater owners, Mohr and Sol Lesser produced and directed a film The Last Night of the Barbary Coast. This film purported to show the last night of the depraved Barbary... Coast red-light district of San Francisco before it was shut down by the police. This is now considered a lost film. Notably, Mohr is the only person to have won a competitive Academy Award without being nominated for it. In 1936, a write-in campaign won him the Best Cinematography Oscar for his work on A Midsummer Night's Dream . The Academy later changed the Oscar rules, making write-in voting impossible. Mohr won another Academy Award for his work on The Phantom of the Opera . Mohr was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematographer for his work on The Fourposter , a film based on a play of the same name, written by Jan de Hartog.
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Herman Shumlin was a prolific Broadway theatrical director and theatrical producer beginning in 1927 with the play Celebrity and continuing through 1974 with a short run of As You Like It, notably with an all male cast. He was also the director of two movies, most famously Watch on the Rhine,... which he first directed and produced on Broadway 1941/1943, and then directed for the screen and released in 1943. During a Broadway career which lasted 47 years, he produced and/or directed 45 different productions, including three separate productions of The Corn is Green . Other well-known productions include The Little Foxes , Watch on the Rhine , and Inherit the Wind , which ran for 806 performances, and was famously first made into a movie in 1960, starring Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, and Gene Kelly, and remade three more times since.
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