The Great Awakening (film)

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The Great Awakening
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Spanish theatrical poster
Directed by Reinhold Schünzel
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Edited by James Smith
Production
company
Gloria Pictures
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • September 10, 1941 (1941-09-10)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$600,000 [1]

The Great Awakening is a 1941 American historical musical 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.

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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. [2]

Plot

Austrian composer Franz Schubert flees from Vienna to avoid conscription, ending up in Hungary where he falls in love. [3]

Cast

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References

  1. "UA Meeting". Variety. November 20, 1940. p. 20.
  2. Bock & Bergfelder, p. 433.
  3. Langman, p. 82.

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