A world conductor has everything, a glorious career, all the riches in the world, well married to a beautiful lady of wealth, her home is a splendid castle, and then she goes mad. What does the conductor do? Of course he tries to do everything for her, but their love is gone, and he as a man necessarily also needs love. So he finds June Allyson, who is happy with him as long as she doesn't know about the mad wife.
It's a typical Douglas Sirk melodrama but very beautifully made enshrined in marvelous music all the way, Schumann, Mozart, Brahms. Wagner and Frank Skinner for the film music. It couldn't be lovelier. The only flaw is that Rossano Brazzi isn't quite convincing as a conductor - any musician must observe that immediately. But all the rest is well done and exquisitely beautiful, while the most important second part is played by Francoise Rosay, a veteran queen of the cinema, aunt of the mad wife, who sees everything clearly, while June Allyson's American boyfriend, Keith Andes, prefers to stay out of any psychology. June Allyson is always good and an ornament to every film she is in, and the film is worth watching above all for her sake.
It's a typical Douglas Sirk melodrama but very beautifully made enshrined in marvelous music all the way, Schumann, Mozart, Brahms. Wagner and Frank Skinner for the film music. It couldn't be lovelier. The only flaw is that Rossano Brazzi isn't quite convincing as a conductor - any musician must observe that immediately. But all the rest is well done and exquisitely beautiful, while the most important second part is played by Francoise Rosay, a veteran queen of the cinema, aunt of the mad wife, who sees everything clearly, while June Allyson's American boyfriend, Keith Andes, prefers to stay out of any psychology. June Allyson is always good and an ornament to every film she is in, and the film is worth watching above all for her sake.