Song of Scheherazade (1947)
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: Walter Reisch
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
Synopsis:
The young Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov visits Spanish Morocco as a naval midshipman and is inspired by a cabaret dancer to write his most famous work.
Review:
Quite what inspired Universal to make this kitsch romantic comedy biopic is anyone's guess. It surely cannot have been a love of classical music; perhaps it was the exotic appeal of its new starlet, or the chance to use Aumont before he slipped back to Europe. Whatever the case, there is a good deal of shipboard padding before we finally get to the delectable Miss De Carlo, and the film climaxes with a Red Shoes-style fantasia-cum-ballet based on the work, performed by the same Spanish dance girl who just happens to be in St Petersburg.
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: Walter Reisch
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
Synopsis:
The young Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov visits Spanish Morocco as a naval midshipman and is inspired by a cabaret dancer to write his most famous work.
Review:
Quite what inspired Universal to make this kitsch romantic comedy biopic is anyone's guess. It surely cannot have been a love of classical music; perhaps it was the exotic appeal of its new starlet, or the chance to use Aumont before he slipped back to Europe. Whatever the case, there is a good deal of shipboard padding before we finally get to the delectable Miss De Carlo, and the film climaxes with a Red Shoes-style fantasia-cum-ballet based on the work, performed by the same Spanish dance girl who just happens to be in St Petersburg.
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: Walter Reisch
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Donlevy
Synopsis:
The young Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov visits Spanish Morocco as a naval midshipman and is inspired by a cabaret dancer to write his most famous work.
Review:
Quite what inspired Universal to make this kitsch romantic comedy biopic is anyone's guess. It surely cannot have been a love of classical music; perhaps it was the exotic appeal of its new starlet, or the chance to use Aumont before he slipped back to Europe. Whatever the case, there is a good deal of shipboard padding before we finally get to the delectable Miss De Carlo, and the film climaxes with a Red Shoes-style fantasia-cum-ballet based on the work, performed by the same Spanish dance girl who just happens to be in St Petersburg.