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The Broken Melody

5.5 / 10

80 minutes

1934-05-15

English

GB

Actors :

John Garrick, Margot Grahame, Merle Oberon, Austin Trevor, Charles Carson, Conway Dixon, Harry Terry, Andreas Malandrinos, Toni Edgar-Bruce, Stella Rho, Kynaston Reeves

Description

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/13/2022, 8:37:13 PM

Recounted by way of an after-show theatre conversation by someone who thinks he recognises one of the actors, this is the rather run of the mill tale of "Paul Verlaine" (a marionette-like John Garrick) who works in a Parisian café with "Germaine Brissard" (Merle Oberon). One night "Simone St. Cloud" (Margot Grahame) - a big star of the stage stops by and next thing she and Garrick are in love, mar...