Give Us This Night (1936) DVD

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Give Us This Night (1936)

Director:

Alexander Hall

Writers:

Jacques Bachrach (idea), Edwin Justus Mayer

Stars:

Jan Kiepura, Gladys Swarthout, Philip Merivale

Charismatic Polish opera singer Jan Kiepura made his Hollywood debut in Give Us This Night. His thick Slavic accent notwithstanding, Kiepura is cast as Italian fisherman Antonio. In the habit of singing as he fishes, Antonio catches the attention of opera diva Maria (played by real-life operatic soprano Gladys Swarthout, in her second film appearance). Our hero ends up replacing Maria's burned-out leading man Forcellini (Alan Mowbray), leading to a series of duets and, naturally, romance. It was the same formula that MGM would later deploy for their Mario Lanza pictures of the 1950s, except that Lanza was a more persuasive screen presence than Kiepura. The highlight of Give Us This Night is the climactic operatic adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Here is the link to the film at the Internet Movie database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027680/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Forget about the story...

Posted by 6.1943 on Jun 5th 2019

...it is full of stereotypes. The combinbation of Jan Kiepura, Glady Swarthout and Erich Wolfgang Korngold is fantastic and makes the film worth watching. Wish all that talent would have been used for better movies and more often!