Academy Awards, USA 1940
| Nominee Oscar | Best Sound, Recording Douglas Shearer (M-G-M SSD) |
MGM
Directed by Reinhold Schunzel
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Nelson Eddy is a singing Cossack captain who falls in love with saloon singer Ilona Massey. He disguises himself as a music student to overcome their differences in social stature. He impresses her father and the other students with his musical abilities, not realizing they are also political revolutionaries who want to overthrow the government of his own father. He uses his connections to get her an audition at the national opera, but it turns out she sings well enough not to need his help. Their true motives are revealed at her premier performance where an assassination attempt occurs. leading to her arrest. He goes off to war and they are separated for several years. After the war, he is employed at a Paris cafe where, quite improbably, they meet again. Enjoyable if contrived propaganda which can't escape the political realities of its time.
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