Hitchcock's musical

[MrSarcasticus]

Waltzes from Vienna

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0024747/combined

Anyone actually seen it? And, more importantly, why is it the master's only sound film impossible to find on video or DVD?

Believe me, I've been searching for years.

[Nanook]

Que sera, sera.

[Walloon]

It's available dubbed in French (http://www.alfredsplace.com/danube.htm) on VHS and DVD.

[Wumpus]

Is it a musical, though? In Truffaut's book Hitchcock decribes it as, "a musical without music."

He also decribes it as his lowest ebb, which probably accounts for why no one is rushing to make it available.

[Walloon]

There's plenty of music: many Johann Strauss's waltzes are performed. It's just not a "song" musical.

[Wumpus]

In that case, 2001 is a musical. :)

[DesertDog]

Originally posted by Wumpus
In that case, 2001 is a musical. :) Flawed analogy. 2001 used oodles of classical music in its soundtrack, but it wasn't about music or those who make it. In this case, I think Amadeus (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086879/combined) would be closer, as it is the story about a composer. Musical? Gray area, I'd say, but tend towards no.

DD

[Wumpus]

Does anyone really use "musical" to mean "about musicians?" (I mean, who refers to 8 Mile or This is Spinal Tap or Sid and Nancy as "musicals?")