The Glass Mountain (1949)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Directors:

Edoardo Anton
Henry Cass

Writers:

Emery Bonnet (writer)
Henry Cass (writer)

Release Date:

May 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer. |

Cast

Michael Denison	...	Richard Wilder
Dulcie Gray	...	Anne Wilder
Valentina Cortese	...	Alida Morrosini
Sebastian Shaw	...	Bruce McLeod
Tito Gobbi	...	Tito Gobbi
Elena Rizzieri	...	Elena Rizzieri (segment "Maria' in opera)
F. Terschack	...	Sandro, the doctor
Antonio Centa	...	Gino, Alida's boyfriend
Arnold Marlé	...	Manager of Teatro La Fenice
Sidney King	...	Charles, the pilot
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Victor Rietti

Also Known As:

La montagna di cristallo (Italy)

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

Italy | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Veneto, Italy

Company:

Scalera Film S.p.a.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Zwischen Kino und Konzert - Der Komponist Nino Rota (1993)

Blurb.

In the Italian Dolomites a British composer (Michael Denison) loves an Italian girl (Valentina Cortese) who had saved his life during the war. This finely-cast soap opera, which also features the great Italian baritone Tito Gobbi, was an enormous British success, less so in its American release. A great deal of it has to do with its wonderful music including an invented opera by the great film-composer Nino Rota, who provided scores for Fellini's best films. Much of the film was shot on location in the Dolomites and at Venice's La Fenice Opera House, destroyed in recent years by a tragic fire. This is a film that is very much worth re-discovering.