Customer Reviews

The Great Waltz

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If only I had heard or seen him earlier,what an actor.His acting is fantistic,he made J.Strauss ll come alive.I'm looking forward to seeing all of his movies.Miliza Korjus was also supurb, to take such a chance to sing a waltz,highly unuaual for an opra star. She deserved the best supporting actress award. She should have made more American movies. Mr.Gravet stole my heart!!Wish he was still around today. If you ever get a chance to view "The Great Waltz" take it. I'm sure you will be magificintly impressed & rewarded! I urge you to buy the film I watch it daily! One doesn't usually want to be older, however this is one time I wish I was. What could be more beautiful than J StraussII waltzs? Only more!!!

Saw this movie when a child, never forgot it. Was able to find it in VHS, but would like DVD. Cannot make out from 'description' of product if spoken in English or not. Will someone who has seen this movie let me know. Thank you.

Korjus (for whom alone I bought the DVD) was thrilling, better than her CDs I think. Don't really care for the Strausses (with exceptions), but she was a miracle. Good enough acting, actually an interesting story, good music (if you like J. Strauss Jr.). The lyrics by the way were by Hammerstein. He kept repeating his best line - it went, Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Highly recommended if you like either Korjus or Strauss or both. Oh. And Korjus was a good little actress herself!

VERY VERY DISAPPOINTED IN THIS DVD...
Cover IS IN JAPANESE....
Pictures of actors are JAPANESE....
Introduction to movie is in Japanese !!!

We DON'T EVEN SPEAK JAPANESE...
nor do we read JAPANESE...

Made in Japan ???
Not too happy with this, and the price
wasn't one of the cheaper dvd's either.

"The Great Waltz", 1938 Black and White, musical.
The rags to riches story of the creator of the lively polka-like, waltzes, "Blue Danube" and "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Johann Strauss. His girlfriend and childhood sweetheart is a humble baker's assistant. He meets a glamorous and wealthy singer. Who will he choose? The story holds your attention, but the reason to watch this film is the many beautiful songs by several exceptional singers. Lavish sets carry away your imagination. Beautiful costumes by the man who clothed the "Wizard of Oz". Too bad this is not in color. They should put out a colorized version. It is a crime not to.

This movie even made me laugh once. The story has a moral dilemma, which I comment upon, under the "comment" button below. But, do not read my comment until after you watch the movie, because I reveal the ending.

I do not know the quality of the prints (Russian & Korean) available here, because I purchased the Portuguese release, in English, subtitles can be turned off, from Brazilian-Cinema. Other releases are available too online, elsewhere, if you Google.

The cover was all in Polish and I was not expecting that. But the sound track was all English. Very fast delivery, well ahead of the estimate given at the time of purchase.