📽️ Am watching “So Ends Our Night,” dir. John Cromwell (United Artists, 1941), a “story of people without passports” based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1939 novel Flotsam.

A great line early on spoken by an Austrian police officer sending two stateless Germans across the border to Czechoslovakia in 1937:

You refugees! It’s not like handling a first-class criminal. You’re detracting from the dignity of my profession.