QuoteOriginally posted by arthurarnell@Feb 7 2005, 07:00 PM
IMDB gives a summary saying the picture is colourful, Korngold's music as always is wonderful but the picture itself is very dull.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a wunderkind who eventually had to escape Austria prior to WWII - movie buffs are the better for it with films he scored in the thirties and forties. A Korngold-scored movie moves a notch up simply because of the presence of his music. His best score was for "The Adventures of Robin Hood," of course!
The subject matter was picked up by another famous composer - Benjamin Britten - his opera "Gloriana." I had the pleasure of attending a performance of this work during the heyday of the "San Antonio Festival" in 1984 staged by the English National Opera - I didn't find this dull at all!
Cheers - Jay 
