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...overblown eloquence of gesture and voice in tragic opera and the grim melo-naturalism of a modern police state are shrewdly used to enhance each other. The opera house serves, too, as a huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...
Stairway to Heaven. British fantasy, imaginative if overblown, with David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey (TIME...
Stairway to Heaven. British fantasy, imaginative if overblown, with David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey (TIME...
Preoccupation with this overblown love triangle leaves the life chopped up into little disjoined parcels. But even this shattered plot would be endurable if the movie had been provided with an intelligent musical score--one item which even Hollywood seems to have mastered in such as the Gershwin and Kern biographies. Except for a few snatches of the G minor symphony--played by Joseph Haydn on the piano!--almost nothing of Mozart's was discernible...
...press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity says...