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The Great Waltz

  • 19721972
  • GG
  • 2h 15m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
254
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The Great Waltz (1972)
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Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.Composer Johann Strauss becomes the "Waltz-King" and woos a baron's mistress in 19th-century Austria.
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
254
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    • Andrew L. Stone
    • Andrew L. Stone
  • Stars
    • Horst Buchholz
    • Mary Costa
    • Nigel Patrick
    • Andrew L. Stone
    • Andrew L. Stone
  • Stars
    • Horst Buchholz
    • Mary Costa
    • Nigel Patrick
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    • 8User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Horst Buchholz and Mary Costa in The Great Waltz (1972)
    Horst Buchholz in The Great Waltz (1972)
    Horst Buchholz in The Great Waltz (1972)
    Horst Buchholz and Mary Costa in The Great Waltz (1972)
    The Great Waltz (1972)
    Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, and Susan Robinson in The Great Waltz (1972)

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    Horst Buchholz
    Horst Buchholz
    • Johann Strauss Jr.
    Mary Costa
    Mary Costa
    • Jetty Treffz
    Nigel Patrick
    Nigel Patrick
    • Johann Strauss Sr.
    Yvonne Mitchell
    Yvonne Mitchell
    • Anna Strauss
    Rossano Brazzi
    Rossano Brazzi
    • Baron Tedesco
    Susan Robinson
    • Emilie Trampusch
    George Howe
    • Karl Frederick Hirsch
    Vicki Woolf
    • Lili Weyl
    James Faulkner
    James Faulkner
    • Josef Strauss
    Lauri Lupino Lane
    • Donmayer
    Paola Loew
    Paola Loew
    • Princess Pauline Metternich
    Ingrid Wayland
    • Theresa Strauß
    Hermione Farthingale
    • Louise
    Marty Allen
    Marty Allen
    • Johann Herbeck
    Lorna Nathan
    • Olga
    Elizabeth Muthsam
    • Caroline Strauß
    Guido Wieland
    • Max Steiner
    William Parker
    • Karl Treffz
      • Andrew L. Stone
      • Andrew L. Stone
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    • Trivia
      This film was presented in the Cinerama format overseas. This would be the last film shown in Cinerama.
    • Goofs
      All of the men's hairstyles and sideburns are strictly in the longer, trendy 1972 international mode, a far cry from 19th-century Austria.
    • Connections
      Featured in Strauss and Vienna: On Location: The Great Waltz (1972)

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    2/10
    A great disappointment
    This movie failed on several levels, most importantly on not knowing what its audience would enjoy. It was a big budget movie, with great stars, and a plot based on a true story of ambition, jealousy, betrayal, pride, and great music - seemingly the ingredients for a terrific film. The story, while intriguing, was not directed in a style that fit either the lavish Austrian locales or the wonderful music of Johann Strauss. It was more of a musical in the style of Broadway, with the music treated that way. Hardly any of Strauss' waltzes were played in their entirety, the main exception being one sung by opera singer Mary Costa. In the movie, when the composer's greatest waltz was being debuted at a dance, the dancers all stood still and started swaying back and forth with the music rather than waltzing - totally unbelievable for a "Great Waltz"! This same scene was then interrupted by a non-Strauss sequence showing printing presses, with a song about how popular the composition became. The last half of the Strauss music was never presented.

    If the movie was aimed at people who wanted to hear Broadway-style songs, it was marketed wrongly as the story of light classical music, so that audience did not go to see it. If it was aimed at people who wanted to hear Strauss waltzes, it tantalized without satisfaction.

    It is no wonder that this big-budget potential blockbuster closed early in theaters, and has all but vanished from public memory, never even having been put on VHS or DVD.
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      • November 1, 1972 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Andrew L. Stone Productions
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    • 2 hours 15 minutes
      • 70 mm 6-Track

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