Multiple functions of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder on Waltz have given film an infectious quality that surmounts the gorgeously apt trappings against which is projected the fable of an American travelling phonograph salesman.
The Emperor Waltz
Bing hits the high notes! Joan hits the love notes! You'll hit a happy note... in this king-sized muscial wonder!
1948 · 1h 46m · Approved
Comedy, Music, Romance
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Overview
A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Bing Crosby as Virgil Smith
- Joan Fontaine as Johanna Augusta Franziska
- Roland Culver as Baron Holenia
- Lucile Watson as Princesse Bitotska
- Richard Haydn as l'empereur François-Joseph
- Harold Vermilyea as Chamberlain
- Sig Ruman as Dr. Zwieback
- Julia Dean as Archduchess Stephanie
- Bert Prival as Chauffeur
- Alma Macrorie as Inn Proprietress
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Brackett and Wilder have made up with casualness and charm -- and with a great deal of clever sight-humor -- for the meagerness of the idea.
Generally reckoned to be Wilder's worst movie.
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