Viennese Nights (1930)
- Directed by
- Alan Crosland
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young Viennese couple falls in love and faces challenges from class differences and a rival suitor. The story follows their romance through songs and operetta-style performances set against the backdrop of old Vienna.
lightheartedromanticnostalgicold-fashionedwhimsicalmusicalsentimentalbittersweet
What happens
Viennese Nights is a 1930 American all-talking pre-Code musical operetta film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Alexander Gray, Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidgeon, Jean Hersholt, Bela Lugosi and Louise Fazenda. It was photographed entirely in Technicolor and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Viennese Nights was the first original operetta written especially for the screen by Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg. It was filmed in March and April 1930, before anyone realized the extent of the economic hardships that would arrive with the Great Depression, which had begun in the autumn of the previous year. Although not a box office hit in the United States, the film had long box office runs in Britain and Australia. It is one of the earliest sound films to have a short pre-credit sequence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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