Patrick Knowles is a poor student at Heidelberg University. He meets and falls in love with Grete Natzler, an incognito princess, and she with him. However, she is to be engaged to a prince, and he is so poor that Carol Goodner, the friendly barmaid at the gasthaus who admires his songwriting pays his bills. This outrages him, and the efforts of his friend, Mackenzie Ward, to come up with the money to pay the debt and to court Miss Goodner, makes up a major subplot, along with a cow.
It's from an operetta called "I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg". Looking back almost nine decades, it's hard to imagine how popular these films were; this received a nomination for "Best Foreign Picture" at the Venice Film Festival. Yet in many ways, the American College Musical -- another outdated form --clearly owes its origins to this sort of stage and screen romance.
Although there's nothing of any particular note here -- the songs are good, without being memorable -- it's a well executed example of the form, with good acting and staging.
It's from an operetta called "I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg". Looking back almost nine decades, it's hard to imagine how popular these films were; this received a nomination for "Best Foreign Picture" at the Venice Film Festival. Yet in many ways, the American College Musical -- another outdated form --clearly owes its origins to this sort of stage and screen romance.
Although there's nothing of any particular note here -- the songs are good, without being memorable -- it's a well executed example of the form, with good acting and staging.