2h 24min | Music, Drama | 28 February 1947
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Marsha Hunt, William Prince, Frank McHugh
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039244/
Watched online, ok print.
This is Jascha Heifetz' other film, the first being They Shall Have Music ('39). I wonder if there are any bad Heifetz recordings. This one is terrific, but he's only 1 of many, many classical performers in this film.
The plot is tedious. The biggest benefit to owning a dvd would be if the chapter stops (or better, an alternate track) would allow skipping the "story" and getting immediately to the next performance. Other than a Korean version on eBay, Amazon shows a Kino release and a Bel Canto Society release. I would be inclined to order the BCS.
Also skippable: the finale, of the original composition by the WP character, played by Harry James and orchestra. I have sympathy for any composer who has to create something that follows all the true classical music in this film, and that composition is supposed to be worthy of a Carnegie Hall debut. This one misses by a mile. Soundtracks lists 3 composers for 57th Street Rhapsody, and none of them has a body of work as film composers listed on IMDb.
Federal Films (II), distr. UA, dir. Ulmer; 6+
