Waltzes from Vienna (Strauss' Great Waltz) (1933)
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25% of users liked it
(101 ratings)
Anxious to finish off his contract with British International Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock agreed to direct Waltzes from Vienna, a schmaltzy musical about "waltz king" Joseph Strauss and his son Joseph Jr. Edmund Gwenn stars as the elder Strauss, with Esmond Knight as his talented progeny.… More Anxious to finish off his contract with British International Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock agreed to direct Waltzes from Vienna, a schmaltzy musical about "waltz king" Joseph Strauss and his son Joseph Jr. Edmund Gwenn stars as the elder Strauss, with Esmond Knight as his talented progeny. The crux of the film is the intense rivalry between the two Strausses, which is somehow resolved by the inaugural performance of Joseph Junior's "The Blue Danube." Displeased with his work in this film, Hitchcock at one point threw up his hands and confessed to his actors "I hate this sort of stuff. Melodrama is the only thing I can do." Hitch regarded Waltzes in Vienna and his silent Champagne as his worst films, and never directed anything like them again. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written By
- Guy Bolton, Heinz Reichert
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1933 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
This anomaly of a musical biopic is one of Hitchcock's few weak films that even he did not like.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
The perception of it as a fumbled trifle is dismissed as soon as Hitchcock lays out the artist's dilemma, the kind that would keep hounding him: "Either you're a musician, or a confectioner."
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, Film4
A soppy, ineffectual musical.
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Cast
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Fay Compton
as The Countess
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Jessie Matthews
as Rasi
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Edmund Gwenn
as Johann Strauss the Elder
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Esmond Knight
as Strauss the Younger
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Frank Vosper
as The Prince
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Robert Hale
as Ebezeder
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Hindle P. Edgar
as Leopold
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Charles Heslop
as Valet
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Marcus Barron
as Drexter
- Billy Shine Junior
- Bertram Dench
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Sybil Grove
as Mme. Fouchett
- B.M. Lewis
- Cyril Smith
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Betty Huntley-Wright
as Maid
