Jul 30th
Song Without End*
(US 1960)
Franz Liszt risks giving up his performing career and his family for love and future compositions.
Lavish musical biopic (historically largely correct, but of course romanticised), with typical Hollywood grandure almost in every frame and musical pieces that follow one after like a Cinemascope period concert. A failed attempt to make a Hollywood star of Dirk Bogarde.
Written by: Oscar Millard (and Walter Bernstein).
Producer: William Goetz.
Director: Charles Vidor (and George Cukor).
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Lyndon Brook (as Wagner), Walter Rilla, Ivan Desny, Marcel Dalio, Abraham Sofaer.
Photography: James Wong Hoe, Charles Lang.
Musical Direction: Morris Stoloff.
+ piano solos on the soundtrack played by Jorge Bolet
Song Without End*
(US 1960)
Franz Liszt risks giving up his performing career and his family for love and future compositions.
Lavish musical biopic (historically largely correct, but of course romanticised), with typical Hollywood grandure almost in every frame and musical pieces that follow one after like a Cinemascope period concert. A failed attempt to make a Hollywood star of Dirk Bogarde.
Written by: Oscar Millard (and Walter Bernstein).
Producer: William Goetz.
Director: Charles Vidor (and George Cukor).
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Lyndon Brook (as Wagner), Walter Rilla, Ivan Desny, Marcel Dalio, Abraham Sofaer.
Photography: James Wong Hoe, Charles Lang.
Musical Direction: Morris Stoloff.
+ piano solos on the soundtrack played by Jorge Bolet
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