Product Details

• Actors: Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn
• Directors: Curtis Bernhardt, Richard Thorpe
• Writers: Dorothy Donnelly, Sonya Levien, Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, William Ludwig
• Producers: Joe Pasternak
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: December 11, 1992
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302593220
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #945 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful music...Heartbreaking Story, July 31, 2003

By	Peter Prainito (Lombard, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I will not recap the story behind this beautiful musical....other reviewers have done this well. All I want to say is be prepared to be delighted by the music and destroyed by the ending of the story. No matter how many times I've seen The Student Prince I end up a whimpering mess at it's conclusion. Very bittersweet and all too real, impossible love situations destroy me. That look on Ann Blyth's face, as the Prince she loves but cannot have visits her one last time, haunts me well after the film concludes, at which time I'm crying like a baby. In fact, as I write these sentences I'm crying again!! Too bad that Mario Lanza was not given the acting role (for whatever reason). We do get to hear his glorious singing voice dubbed with actor Edmund Purdom doing a credible acting job. But it is the radiant Ann Blyth (with her own beautiful singing voice) that steals the show for me, and I'm a gay man!! I only hope the DVD will follow soon.
Recommended for all lovers of romance. Have the tissues ready for the ending.

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'd Love to be Serenaded by a Prince if I'd Just Lost My Job, October 1, 2001

By	Deborah Earle (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The title for this review is a reference to the scene in the movie in which Prince Karl's antics in a restaurant result in the dismissal of the heroine, Kathie Ruder, from her job as a waitress. After she turns in her uniform on that clear night, she subsequently has a hostile encounter with the Prince in the street, and shortly afterwards, he breaks into Romberg's immortal "Serenade", which no one to this day can sing quite like Mario Lanza.
While it is regrettable that Lanza lost the title role of this film in in a 1954 scandal that looks like absolutely nothing compared to the O.J. Case, his angelic vocalization is the main course of this colorful, delectable tale.
Edmond Purdom managed to do justice to the part of the prince who walks with kings but until he goes to the University of Heidelberg, has no idea how to keep the common touch. Betta St. John is his very regal fiance who, after being the guest of honor at a sumptuous ball, brings the Prince's lack of warmth and charm to the attention of the king and queen, setting the events of this story in motion. While this colorful film tanked at the box office, it is quite enjoyable to watch because many people can identify to having to drop out of school or a job because of a family crisis, as Prince Karl must during the course of this story. Ann Blyth has a lot of maturity as the love interest who helps a prince grow up, Edmund Gwenn as the jovial Professor Juttner and John Williams as the stuffy Lutz help give the prince a bit of balance as he saunders back and forth between the two worlds of royal tradition and University life. Interestingly, it was around this time that Britain's Prince Charles became the first Royal to be educated outside of Buckingham Palace--a major media event because it was hoped that he would become a better monarch if he was better acquainted with the people he would one day rule.
Louis Calhern is every inch the regal monarch, still maintaing a booming authority in his voice even when he is termianlly ill. Evelyn Varden is his shrewd Queen. In one of his last performances, S.Z. Sakall, the only cast member with a German accent, plays the inkeeper who watches as the prince learns to become a person, but tries to keep the relationship between the prince and his niece from becoming too serious.
In the end the paths of lovers may sever. But "The Student Prince" is a musical that will be remembered forever.Rather than being mournful, however, its motto is ever relevant:" Gaudeamus Igitur".--"Let us rejoice while we are young!"

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL!!!, August 17, 2005

By	Fred Oberheide (Clayton, MO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

One of Sigmund Romberg's BEST...and beautifully adapted to film.
That said, WHY ISN'T WARNER STUDIOS TRANSFORMING IT TO DVD?!!!