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ABDUCTED by Joseph E. Levine, chained in a dungeon with Steve Reeves (and a cast of thousands), the epic saga has arisen. In Hagbard and Signe the cinesaga stands up, wipes off the grade-C slime, and brings to film the stature of its literary counterpart...
...more you enjoy Hagbard and Signe, the more it may depress you ... because way down in the depths of your romantic soul you'll know this is how men should be. These characters don't play with their own intellects for our delectation. They rarely even talk. Their spirits shine with a brilliance we've lost sight of, and they are simply beautiful, the bad ones even in their evil...
...classic sagas, there is no development of character. Dialogue only occasionally breaks through the long silences, and when it does, it is something less than crackling ("Will you go with me, Sigrie?" "I will go with you, Hagbard"). Violent emotions are registered only by the slightly flared nostril and the widened eye; mothers receive without a single word the news that several of their sons have been killed, and the heroine watches her lover fighting for his life with all the apparent pity and terror of a spectator at a close chess match. Yet in its own archetypal terms...
Sigvor's daughter Signe and Hamund's son Hagbard fall in love...
...fashion-plate maestro guided them, but a lean, timid, white-bearded, 61-year-old Swedish music teacher named Dr. Hagbard Brase. Dr. Brase, who has brought up a strapping Swedish-American family of five on a modest salary as professor of music at Lindsborg's Bethany College, has led all of Lindsborg's Messiahs since 1915. A simple, religious man, whose hobby is gardening, Dr. Brase sleeps little spends his nights mostly poring over scores by Bach and Handel. Says he: "There will never be time enough in this world or the next to plumb the depths...
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