Product Details

• Actors: Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker
• Directors: Bernard Knowles
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hallmark
• VHS Release Date: January 28, 1997
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304274882
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,025 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well-done Granger Vehicle, January 18, 2007

By 

Pass-the-Salt "Late-night viewer" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magic Bow [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a surprisingly engaging movie with all the pageantry one would expect from a big-budget period costume drama. Granger, not yet discovered by Hollywood, excels as famous violinist Paganini, equal parts ambition and impetuousness. We had, quite frankly, expected to be bored, but we were, on the contrary, thoroughly engrossed and entertained. Granger's heavily rouged lips, apparently the style in 1946 England, are unfortunate, a constant and unintentional draw for the viewer's eye. (We won't even touch on the astonishingly hilarious wig he wears for the first half of the movie.) But the magnificently masculine voice is undeniable, and he already carries himself like the swashbuckler Hollywood would eventually make of him. He reportedly studied the violin in preparation for this role, and the close-ups of him playing his impassioned music are impressive. The acting is, by and large, commendable. Our only real complaint is the odd tendency of the background musical score to swell over the dialogue, even during critical scenes, as though we must be continually reminded that this is, after all, a film about music. A must-see for the die-hard Granger fan, for the student of Paganini, or for anyone who enjoys a solid old-fashioned story told in glorious black-and-white.