The Emperor Waltz (1948)
- Directed by
- Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 28 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 brash American gramophone salesman tries to sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria in the early 1900s. The film follows his efforts to win over the emperor and gain popularity for his product.
lightheartedwhimsicalupbeatplayfulold-fashionedromanticoptimistic
What happens
The Emperor Waltz (German: Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame) is a 1948 American musical film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. Written by Wilder and Charles Brackett, the film is about a brash American gramophone salesman in Austria at the turn of the twentieth century who tries to convince Emperor Franz Joseph to buy a gramophone so the product will gain favor with the Austrian people. The Emperor Waltz was inspired by a real-life incident involving Franz Joseph I of Austria. Filmed in Jasper National Park in Canada, the picture premiered in London, Los Angeles, and New York in the spring of 1948, and was officially released in the United States July 2, 1948. In 1949, the film received Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Music, as well as a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Musical. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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