Blue Danube (1932)

Genres - Musical  |   Sub-Genres - Melodrama  |   Run Time - 68 min.  |   Countries - United Kingdom  |  
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

The credits for the 68-minute programmer Blue Danube are rather more impressive than the film itself. The picture was produced and directed by British cinematic giant Herbert Wilcox, the script is by veteran actor/director/playwright Miles Malleson, and the stars are the formidable Austrian-born stage actor Joseph Schildkraut and one-time Metropolis leading lady Brigette Helm (this was a German-English co-production). The story casts Helm and Schildkraut as European gypsies whose romance is broken up when both fall in love with aristocrats. It is Schildkraut who finally awakens to the old bromide "stay in your own backyard." Blue Danube is not a remake of the 1928 film of the same name, even though Joseph Schildkraut starred in both.

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forbidden-love, gypsy, love, musical [play], reunion, sweetheart