Golden Dawn (MOD)

Golden Dawn (MOD)Talkie Era musicals were usually all star revues or tales of backstage heartache and triumph. Golden Dawn based on a 184 performance, 1927 operetta co created by Oscar Hammerstein II ambitiously breaks free of those musical confines to expand the genre's cinematic reach. Set in World War I era Africa, it tells the tale of Dawn, a tribal woman in love with a British soldier but chosen to be the sacrificial bride of a god. Stage sensation Vivienne Segal

two of film's all-time greats star in a psychological thriller rife with pelting rain and pealing bells

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Bored schoolteacher Sylvia Bruce (Davies) is disenchanted with life until she hears the incredible crooning of egomaniacal radio personality Bill Williams (Crosby)

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Her arrival adds to conductor Zoltan Szanto's daily damage control within Opera Europa ("where you can be misunderstood in six different languages")

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in which he judged it "a thoroughly pleasant entertainment with a thoroughly pleasant cast to grace it

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