 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mutambo wake Watch on the Rhine wakavhurwa paBroadway pana April 1, 1941, uye wakaitwa kwenguva 378. Yakawana mubayiro weNew York Drama Critics Circle Award. Akanyora mutambo uyu muna 1940, apo kudaidzira kwayo kubatana kwenyika yose kurwisana naHitler kwakapesana zvakananga nechinzvimbo chechiKomonisiti panguva iyoyo, zvichitevera Chibvumirano cheNazi-Soviet ChokusarwisayechiNgezi yaAugust 1939. Pakuvamba muna 1942, Hellman akaperekedza kugadzirwa kuWashington, D.C., nokuda kwebasa rekubatsira apo akataura naMutungamiri Roosevelt. Hammett akanyora chinyorwa chomufananidzo wefirimu wakaonekwa muna 1943. 