Wednesday 15 February 2017

Broken Melody (1934 Bernard Vorhaus)

Made with the kinds of visual flourish you associate with Vorhaus at the time (aided by Jack Harris editing). Composer Jack Garrick - cast as much for his singing - ignores Merle Oberon in favour of opera star Margot Grahame to his regret, ends up in Devil's Island, where he befriends a monkey for one scene (it then disappears, presumably eaten). Quite lively tale ends with composer telling his own story through opera.

Strange that all this was going on in Twickenham.

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