The Emperor Waltz

The Emperor Waltz (1948)

  • 63% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 40% of users liked it
    (357 ratings)

Set in pre-World War I Austria, this relatively sweet and cheerful film marks writer/director Billy Wilder's first and last try at musical comedy. Bing Crosby is Virgil H. Smith, a New Jersey-born phonograph salesman with a fox terrier mutt and orders to sell record players in Austria. Joan… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Genres
Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1948 Wide
Paramount

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Multiple functions of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder on Waltz have given film an infectious quality that surmounts the gorgeously apt trappings against which is projected the fable of an American travelling phonograph salesman.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    Brackett and Wilder have made up with casualness and charm -- and with a great deal of clever sight-humor -- for the meagerness of the idea.

  • , Time Out

    Generally reckoned to be Wilder's worst movie.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Not one of Billy Wilder's strong films, this bizarre period musical teams the director with crooner Bing Crosby, who's pleasant enough and some of the tunes are medlodic.

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Definitely colorful, but otherwise mediocre Bing Crosby musical with few memorable tunes.

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