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Lake Placid Serenade (1944)

Lake Placid Serenade poster
Directed by
Steve Sekely
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Czech ice-skating champion flees the German invasion of her country and moves to the United States to stay with her uncle. There she finds romance and a new life.

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What happens

Lake Placid Serenade is a 1944 American musical romance film directed by Steve Sekely and starring Vera Ralston, Eugene Pallette and Barbara Jo Allen. Following the German invasion of Czechoslovakia a Czech ice-skating champion goes to stay with her Uncle in the United States. It was made by Republic Pictures as a slightly higher-budget production than most of the studios' B Movies. The film's sets were designed by the art director Russell Kimball. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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