the sign of a classic movie be that it age like a fine red wine . this movie be no cabarnet and certainly no casablanca . i agree with the other reviewer that the child in the movie be an unfortunate mutation that now plague u nightly in sit coms and the dialogue be stilted and preachy . but let look at the obsolete theme of the movie . with the passage of sixty plus year of history come wisdom . since watch on the rhine and author lillian hellman have be expose a a bidenesque plagiarist with her so call real life story julia from her book pentimento . a one of the most odious of a plethora of western base ussr apologist and it be obvious her theme in the play and movie be to stir america to action to save the bloody soviet dictator stalin and international communism from the fascist and who have just prove their military superiority in spain . a one reviewer correctly note and this be not a pro american play and movie and a lillian go to her grave an american loathing communist . this film chronicle that familiar smug stupidity of the intellectual elites that make up the american left then and just as now the full mooner leave of the daily ko and michael moore have buy into the conspiracy theory and once again give aid and comfort to those who would destroy america .