Song Without End

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NR,2hrs 10min

Genres:

Drama,Musical

Released:

August 11, 1960

Directors:

George Cukor, Charles Vidor

Distributor:

Castaway NW [VCP]

Starring:

Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page ... More

Synopsis: Hoping to recapture the success of its 1945 Frederic Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures concocted the 1960 Technicolor costume drama Song Without End. Dirk Bogarde is cast as musical genius Franz Liszt. Bogarde's piano scenes are dubbed with another's singing voice, but this hardly matters in that the film is preoccupied with Liszt's infamous romantic entanglements. The crux of the matter is Liszt's desire to wed the already married Russian princess Carolyne (Capucine), which will ... Full Synopsis

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	Craig Butler, AMG Review By 1960, the kind of old fashioned classical composer bio that is Song Without End was a strange anomaly. Like countless Hollywood biopics before it, Song plays fast and loose with the truth in its retelling of the life and loves of the brilliant Franz Liszt. As is usually the case with these rewrites, the "new" story isn't so very new and isn't really an improvement on what actually happened, but ... Read Review