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Director
  
Walter Forde

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Language
  
English

Writer
  
Fritz Koselka
,
Eric Maschwitz
,
L. du Garde Peach

Release date
  
8 October 1936

Music director
  
Oscar Straus, Van Phillips

Screenplay
  
L. du Garde Peach, Eric Maschwitz, Rudolf Bernauer, Marion Dix, Ernest Betts

Cast
  
Jimmy Durante
(Jonah J. Whistler),
Richard Tauber
(Mario Carlini),
Diana Napier
(Princess-Regent Maria Renata),
June Clyde
(Sadie Whistler),
Derrick De Marney
(Rudolpho Strozzi),
Edward Rigby
(The Maestro)

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Land Without Music is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Richard Tauber, Diana Napier and Jimmy Durante. It was made at Denham Studios. The film was one of a number of operetta films made in Britain during the decade.

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The film is also known by the alternative title Forbidden Music in the United States.

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Plot summary

After discovering that her state is penniless because its citizens spend their time making music instead of money, a European Grand Duchess bans music in her domains. A New York journalist conspires with rogues to stage a concert.

Cast

  • Richard Tauber as Mario Carlini
  • Diana Napier as Princess-Regent Maria Renata
  • Jimmy Durante as Jonah J. Whistler
  • June Clyde as Sadie Whistler
  • Derrick De Marney as Rudolpho Strozzi
  • George Hayes as Police Colonel Strozzi
  • Esme Percy as Austrian Ambassador
  • John Hepworth as Pedro
  • Edward Rigby as The Maestro
  • George Carney as Prison Warder
  • Ivan Wilmot as Chief Bandit
  • Robert Nainby as Minister for War
  • Joe Monkhouse as Finance Minister
  • Quentin McPhearson as Customs Officer
  • Evelyn Ankers as a Lady of the Court (uncredited; "Who's Carlini?" sequence)
  • Soundtrack

    The musical score for this film was composed by Oscar Straus. The main songs are 'Simple Little Melody', 'Smile for Me', 'Heaven in a Song' and 'You must have Music', all of which were recorded by Tauber for Parlophone.

    References

    Land Without Music Wikipedia
    Land Without Music IMDb Land Without Music themoviedb.org