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Director
  
Herbert Wilcox

Country
  
United Kingdom

6.2/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
May 1932 (1932-05)

Goodnight, Vienna (also known as Magic Night) is a 1932 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina Malo. Two lovers in Vienna are separated by the First World War, but are later reunited.

Contents

It was based on a radio operetta written by Eric Maschwitz. It features the song "Good-night, Vienna". Wilcox reportedly cast Neagle, whom he would later marry and direct in many films, after discovering her by chance in a stage show.

Plot

Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again.

Cast

  • Jack Buchanan - Captain Maximilian Schletoff
  • Anna Neagle - Vicki
  • Gina Malo - Frieda
  • Clive Currie - General Schletoff
  • William Kendall - Ernst
  • Joyce Bland - Countess Helga
  • Gibb McLaughlin - Max's Orderly
  • Herbert Carrick - Johann
  • Clifford Heatherley - Donelli
  • O. B. Clarence - Theatre Manager
  • Peggy Cartwright - Greta
  • Muriel Aked - Marya
  • Aubrey Fitzgerald - Waiter

    • Production

    Herbert Wilcox was played the scored by Eric Maschwitz and George Ponsford. He liked it and bought the rights. Within a week Wilcox persuaded Jack Buchanan to play the lead. He wanted Lea Seidl or Evelyn Lane to play the female lead but neither was available. He went to tell Buchanan that the film was going to be postponed; Buchanan was playing in a show Stand Up and Sing with Anna Neagle. Wilcox was impressed by Neagle and cast her at a fee of £150. The film was shot in three weeks before Buchanan had to leave to appear in Stand Up and Sing at Liverpool. During the making of the film, Wilcox and Neagle fell in love

    Reception

    The film was Wilcox's most commercially successful until that time.

    References

    Goodnight, Vienna Wikipedia
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    Goodnight, Vienna IMDb