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4 November 1970 (USA)
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A song for the heart to sing...for the world to love!
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Gorgeous Norwegian scenery in search of a plot...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Toralv Maurstad | ... | Edvard Grieg |
| Florence Henderson | ... | Nina Grieg |
| Christina Schollin | ... | Therese Berg |
| Frank Porretta | ... | Richard Nordraak |
| Harry Secombe | ... | Bioernstjerne Bjoernson |
| Robert Morley | ... | Berg |
 | Edward G. Robinson | ... | Krogstad |
| Elizabeth Larner | ... | Mrs. Bjoernson |
| Oskar Homolka | ... | Engstrand |
| Frederick Jaeger | ... | Henrik Ibsen |
| Henry Gilbert | ... | Franz Liszt |
| Richard Wordsworth | ... | Hans Christian Andersen |
| Bernard Archard | ... | George Nordraak |
| John Barrie | ... | Mr. Hagerup |
| Wenche Foss | ... | Mrs. Hagerup |
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138 min
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70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)
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A screen adaptation by Universal, to be produced in Technicolor by Sam Spiegel (then known as S.P. Eagle), and to star Deanna Durbin, was set to begin filming in January 1948. Because of a projected high budget, the movie was canceled in August 1947.
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Referenced in Strauss and Vienna: On Location: The Great Waltz (1972)
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SONG OF NORWAY is an unbearably dull musical pastiche of clichés heard in every musical ever made that purported to be the saga of a composer's struggles to find recognition for his music. Edvard Grieg's struggles are so dull as to be non-stop in this awful compilation of Norwegian scenery by the truckload with no story to carry it.
It is notable that the man who plays Grieg, TORALV MAURSTAD, never did make another American film, so disastrous were the reviews and box-office for this dull saga. Note also that FLORENCE HENDERSON was not able to make another film in Hollywood but went directly to television and stayed there for a very successful run on "The Brady Bunch". See the film and you will judge yourself why it was an abject failure. And don't be fooled by the presence of OSKAR HOMOLKA, EDWARD G. ROBINSON and ROBERT MORLEY in the cast. They have little or nothing to do.
Music lovers may be enchanted by Grieg's works, but not the way they are presented here. Nor is there any resemblance between the zestful SOUND OF MUSIC and its picturesque way of dealing with the Von Trapp Singers and this dull as dishwater musical that would work better as a travelogue of Norway with the plot excised.
See it at your own risk.