The Emperor Waltz (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 17, 2021
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bing Crosby & Joan Fontaine | |
Performer: | Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn, Harold Vermilyea & Sig Ruman | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Doane Harrison | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett | |
Composition by | Victor Young | |
Art Direction by | Franz Bachelin & Hans Dreier | |
Produced by | Charles Brackett | |
Director of Photography: | George Barnes |
Entertainment Reviews:
...An Austria-set confection...
USA Today
There are so few bad Wilder films that one this awful and irredeemable is heart-breaking.
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Film4
This is a charming musical from Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, two of the best screenwriters ever.
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TV Guide
Brackett and Wilder get their effect by combining a free-for-all farcical story with formal magnificence in setting, and costume.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Multiple functions of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder on Waltz have given film an infectious quality that surmounts the gorgeously apt trappings against which is projected the fable of an American travelling phonograph salesman.
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Variety
A pastel comedy that presents two dangers disguised as virtue: that of conservatism and that of progress. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Butaca Ancha
Rating: C+ --
Not one of Billy Wilder's strong films, this bizarre period musical teams the director with crooner Bing Crosby, who's pleasant enough and some of the tunes are medlodic.
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Product Description:
A rare musical comedy for Wilder, it stars Bing Crosby as Virgil H. Smith, a phonograph salesman, plying his wares in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna. Believing that if he's able to sell a phonograph to Emperor Franz Joseph I, the rest of Austria will soon follow his example, Virgil attempts to gain access to the man. After he's refused admission to the palace by guards who believe the phonograph to be a bomb, he meets Countess Johanna Augusta Franziska (Joan Fontaine), when his mutt gets into a fight with her pedigreed poodle, which has just been chosen to mate with that of the emperor, and the owners part on bad terms. When Virgil again tries to approach the emperor, while he's hunting in the Australian Tyrol, the vindictive Johanna happens to be present, and sees to it that Virgil is deported. However, the Countess' dog, Scheherazade, soon suffers a nervous breakdown and the attending veterinarian, a strict Freudian, insists that Virgil's dog must return to re-enact their conflict. Except for the witty script by Bracket and Wilder, this light confection, shot on location in Canada's Jasper National park, bears few signs of the director's style.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 74,016
- UPC: 738329254841
- Shipping Weight: 0.15/lbs (approx)
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