7.8
Rio Bravo
1959
The Broken Melody (1934)
May 15, 19341h 20mEN
7.0
3 votes
Overview
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Director
Bernard VorhausWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Julius Hagen ProductionsTwickenham Studios
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
5.0Recounted by way of an after-show theatre conversation by someone who thinks he recognises one of the actors, this is the rather run of the mill tale of "Paul Verlaine" (a marionette-like John Garrick) who works in a Parisian café with "Germaine Brissard" (Merle Oberon). One night "Simone St. Cloud" (Margot Grahame) - a big star of the stage stops by and next thing she and Garrick are in love, married and have a baby... All of this inspires him to write a musical, but Lloyd Webber he isn't; it flops and she dumps him. He takes revenge by killing his successor in her life and is dispatched to t…
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