The Robber Symphony

The Robber Symphony is a 1936 British musical film directed by Friedrich Feher.[1]

The Robber Symphony
Directed byFriedrich Feher
StarringHans Feher
Magda Sonja
Music byFriedrich Feher
Color processblack and white
Release date
  • April 1936 (1936-04)
Running time
2h 16min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Cast

Reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed reception. Despite characterizing the picture as "certainly the most interesting film of the last twelve months", Greene found the film to deliver a "priggish[] reprimand [with] a didactic note". Praising the story as "excellent" and dwelling on the "superb sequence of four player-pianos dragged across the Alps", Greene nevertheless complained that "in so far as [Feher's] experiment is original, it is barren."[2]

Trivia

The leading roles of Giannino and Giannino's mother were played by the director's son and wife.

gollark: This unironically reads vaguely like some sort of abusive relationship thing.
gollark: ...
gollark: That comes under "certain lyric things".
gollark: If you do "lyric but without certain lyric things" that is perfectly acceptable.
gollark: That would be fine, really?

References

  1. "The Robber Symphony". TV Guide.
  2. Greene, Graham (24 May 1936). "The Robber Symphony/The Littlest Rebel/The Emperor's Candlesticks". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 76–78. ISBN 0192812866.)


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