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Majestic bass Paul Robeson warbles his way through this fascinating, heartwarming, if long dated, tale of Johnny Zinga, a London dock worker who is turned by his encounter with an impresario into an opera star […]
Terence Fisher makes his directorial debut with the overwrought and over-acted but under-written 1948 second-feature black and white romantic drama film A Song for Tomorrow starring Evelyn McCabe, Shaun Noble and Ralph Michael. The story […]
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner) and Best Sound, Recording (Nathan Levinson). Rather surprisingly, Warner Bros entered it into the Cannes […]
MGM’s 1951 Technicolor musical drama The Great Caruso stars Mario Lanza in a quasi-biopic that depicts the life of the great Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) in typically distorted Hollywood fashion. Director Richard Thorpe’s […]
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
Antonio Gades (as the choreographer Antonio and the film’s real choreographer) and sizzling Laura del Sol (as the main dancer Carmen) kick up a storm in director Carlos Saura’s 1983 Spanish dance film Carmen. In […]
James M Cain’s dark and gritty 1937 thriller source novel Serenade is emasculated to produce a standard soapy Hollywood musical tale of a poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza) rising to operatic success via […]