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The Broken Melody (1934)

NR 05/15/1934 Drama, Music 1h 20m
70%
User
Score
5.8/10

Overview

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

H. Fowler Mear

Writer

Vera Allinson

Writer

Bernard Vorhaus

Director

Michael Hankinson

Writer

Top Billed Cast

John Garrick

John Garrick

Paul Verlaine

Margot Grahame

Margot Grahame

Simone St. Cloud

Merle Oberon

Merle Oberon

Germaine Brissard

Austin Trevor

Austin Trevor

Pierre Falaise

Charles Carson

Charles Carson

Colonel Dubonnet

Conway Dixon

Conway Dixon

His Friend

Harry Terry

Harry Terry

Henri

Andreas Malandrinos

Andreas Malandrinos

Brissard

Toni Edgar-Bruce

Toni Edgar-Bruce

Vera

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on June 13, 2022

Recounted by way of an after-show theatre conversation by someone who thinks he recognises one of the actors, this is the rather run of the mill tale of "Paul Verlaine" (a marionette-like John Garrick) who works in a Parisian café with "Germaine Brissard" (Merle Oberon). One night "Simone St. Cloud" (Margot Grahame) - a big star of the stage stops by and next thing she and Garrick are in love, married and have a baby... All of this inspires him to write a musical, but Lloyd Webber he isn't; it flops and she dumps him. He takes revenge by killing his successor in her life and is dispatched to the harsh Devil's Island. He does his time; gets back to Paris and tries to get it all back on track with his old friend Oberon who looks every inch the vulnerable, "Olive Oyl" type, but doesn't featu...

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