The Great Awakening (film)

The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening
	Spanish theatrical poster
Directed by	Reinhold Schünzel
Written by	Howard Estabrook; Nicholas Joy
Produced by	Douglas MacLean; William Sekely; Alexander Korda (uncredited)
Starring	Alan Curtis; Ilona Massey; Billy Gilbert; Binnie Barnes; Sig Arno;
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 10, 1941;
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Great Awakening is a 1941 American historical drama film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Alan Curtis, Ilona Massey, and Billy Gilbert. The film was produced by Gloria Pictures Corporation, and released by United Artists. Miklós Rózsa was responsible for the musical direction, though he later expunged the title from his filmography, because he considered it a travesty of the great composer's life story.

The film, sometimes known by the alternative titles New Wine (original title), One Romantic Night (USA reissue title) or Schubert, the Melody Master, was the last directed by Schünzel who was an exile from Nazi Germany.^[1]

Plot

Austrian composer Franz Schubert flees from Vienna to avoid conscription, ending up in Hungary where he falls in love.^[2]

Cast

Alan Curtis as Franz Schubert
Ilona Massey as Anna
Billy Gilbert as Poldi
Binnie Barnes as Countess Carolinda
Sig Arno as Maestro Frascini
Barnett Parker as Duke
Albert Bassermann as Ludwig van Beethoven
Kenneth Farrell as young man
Ann Stewart as young woman
Gilbert Emery as school principal
George O'Hanlon as Peppi
Forrest Tucker as Moritz
Maynard Holmes as Wilhelm
Marion Martin as Mitzi, tavern wench
Paul Sutton as farm foreman
Sterling Holloway as Otto, the bookkeeper
John Qualen as Hasslinger's Clerk
Richard Carle as Karl Hasslinger

References

^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 433. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
^ Langman, Larry (2000). Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-7864-0681-4.

External links

The Great Awakening at IMDb

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[1] Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 433. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

[2] Langman, Larry (2000). Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-7864-0681-4.

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