What is the plot of Hold Back the Dawn?

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Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard. — Billy Wilder Billy Wilder in a promotional photograph for *Sunset Boulevard* (1950), which he directed.

The film Hold Back the Dawn (1941) is a drama centered on a suave European refugee, played by Charles Boyer, who finds himself stranded in Mexico. To secure entry into the United States, he manipulates an American schoolteacher, portrayed by Olivia de Havilland, into marrying him.1