Heart's Desire
Sheet music tie-in
Directed byPaul L. Stein
Written by
Produced byWalter C. Mycroft
Starring
CinematographyJohn C. Cox
Edited byLeslie Norman
Music byG.H. Clutsam
Production
company
Distributed byWardour Films
Release date
August 1935
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Heart's Desire is a 1935 British musical drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Richard Tauber, Leonora Corbett, Kathleen Kelly, Diana Napier and Frank Vosper.[1] Its plot involves a young opera singer who is discovered in Vienna and brought to London where he rises to stardom.[2] The film was made at Elstree Studios in April/May 1935, and had its charity premiere at the Regal Cinema, Marble Arch, London on 17 October that year. It was part of a cycle of British operetta films.

Cast

Critical reception

In a contemporary review, The Sydney Morning Herald wrote "This plot makes few demands upon Mr Tauber as actor and enables the audience to enjoy his magnificent singing without much interruption...It would be impossible one imagines, for Mr Tauber to navigate his way through a film that was stronger dramatically than this one. A film in which he appears becomes a pleasant alternative to a series of his phonograph records. From this point of view the producers of 'Heart's Desire' have succeeded admirably."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bock & Bergfelder p.467
  2. ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | HEART'S DESIRE (1935)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "HEART'S DESIRE". Sydney Morning Herald. 18 November 1935. p. 6 – via Trove.

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.


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