Product Details

• Actors: Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds
• Directors: Curtis Bernhardt
• Writers: Marjorie Lawrence, Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
• Producers: Jack Cummings
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM/UA Home Video
• VHS Release Date: June 30, 1994
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303120504
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,755 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best opera movie, May 5, 2000

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Thomas F. Dillingham (Columbia, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Interrupted Melody [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was 14 when this movie opened and I saw it at least five times (but I have never in my life worn a baseball cap backward, so I guess I have not really contradicted the previous reviewer). I repeated because the Liebestod (as sung by Eileen Farrell, though I did not know that until much later) was one of the greatest musical experiences of my life--then and since, though I had been a devout opera fan before that movie and have been a serious Wagnerian ever since. The movie somewhat romanticized Marjorie Lawrence's life, but Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford, who played her husband, built a credible dramatic picture of the calamity of serious physical illness striking a great artist. Lawrence did sing Isolde at the Met as her last performance there--whether she rose to fall across Tristan's body must be for some other historian to tell--I certainly wasn't there. But the movie inspires both admiration and creative enthusiasm in anyone who can respond at all to great music and the great determination it requires to perform it well.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Film, Especially for Opera Lovers, May 29, 2009

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B. Haggerty "BHag" (NY, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Interrupted Melody (DVD)

I think this is a beautiful film, well acted, written and beautifully sung by Eileen Farrell. The opera segments are wonderful and Eleanor Parker has the best role of her career. By all means see it, especially if you are an opera buff. The quality is actually quite good, although a full re-mastering should be done.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Biopic of polio-stricken Wagnerian soprano Marjorie Lawrence, July 16, 1999

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This review is from: Interrupted Melody [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Eleanor Parker, a dramatic actress of the higher second rung in 50s Hollywood, takes on legendary Australian Wagnerian soprano Marjorie Lawrence who, at height of career (20s & 30s), was stricken with polio. Lavishly staged scenes from operas -- sung by the astonishing Eileen Farrell (American pop/Wagnerian songstress of 40s & 50s) -- make this quite the feast for dually addicted film/opera fans. Best of all is footage of Parker/Lawrence making a tough comeback by belting out the 'Siegfried' Brunnhilde and Isolde from reclining position. They really don't make them like this anymore. How many 14-year-old males with their bills pointed backwards would buy tickets?