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Synopsis: Paul Boray comes from a working class background. He has been interested in the violin since he was a child, which his father disliked since he felt it a waste of money, but which his mother supported. Into his adult life, Paul wants to become a concert violinist, and although he shows talent, he does not have the right connections to make it into the concert performance world, much like his longtime friend, virtuoso pianist Sid Jeffers, and cellist Gina Romney, both who, like Paul, train with the National Institute Orchestra. Gina and Paul have a connection with each other, Gina who confesses her love for him. While performing at a party with Sid, Paul meets Helen and Victor Wright, their hosts. Victor is a perceptive but self-admittedly weak man, while his wife Helen is strong minded but insecure which manifests itself as neurosis. She constantly tries to forget about her unhappy life by excessive alcohol consumption. Helen becomes Paul's benefactress, which ultimately results in a s
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Director(s): Jean Negulesco
Production: Warner Home Video
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
APPROVED
Year:
1946
125 min
343 Views


- Did you bring me a present?

Make a wish, Paul. Make a wish.

- Happy birthday, Paul.

- Gee, I blew out all the lights.

All right, Sister, turn on the lights.

Do you like it, darling? Do you like it?

Will you put that thing away?

Hey, we're gonna play ball.

Anybody wanna play ball with us?

- Hey, Phil, where's Paul?

- He's practicing.

- Does he have to?

- He don't have to.

You mean he wants to?

Mr. Boray.

Mr. Boray.

- Me?

- Mr. Boray, we don't expect you...

...to be with us all the time. But would

you mind keeping in touch with us?

This overture is written

for full orchestra not solo violin.

- Let's try it both ways.

- Let's try it as the composer wrote it, Boray.

All right. I'm sorry.

All right. Once more

from the double bar.

This time, Mr. Boray has promised

to rejoin the orchestra.

It occurs to me, Mr. Boray,

you are very fresh.

Well, that's exactly the quality

that I like in your playing.

All right. From the double bar.

I'm right behind you, Gina.

Get it? See what I mean?

Bach is church windows.

Beethoven is a giant range

of mountains. Wagner is a storm.

- Debussy is the wind in the trees.

- And you? What are you?

Me? I'm the dynamo

that makes them tick.

I'm a self-starter. I'll knock this town

on its ear once I get started.

Nobody sits on my head.

It's full of talent.

Last week, I met Jos lturbi.

He told me, "Practice.

Learn what they want and play it."

Paul, we've passed my house.

Oh, I'm sorry. Remind me to let you

get in a word every once in a while.

When I get wound up, I just go on and on

until someone changes the needle.

- I know how you feel.

- Do you?

Really?

It's funny, you know, I never

open up like this to most people...

...not even Mom. It's only you.

You know what I mean?

I don't have to pose with you.

I don't have to fight or argue.

I can be what I am, no different.

No better, no worse. Just me.

- You know?

- I know.

Gee, I'm itching to get started.

A thousand concerts

in my fingers waiting to get out.

Nothing can stop me. Nothing can

get in my way. I don't feel alive until...

Hey.

If I told you I loved you...

...would you laugh?

- No.

Well, I do.

You see, I'm not laughing.

Evening paper!

Get your evening paper! Thank you, sir.

- Hey.

- Evening paper!

- Read all about it!

- Hi, Eddie, how did the Yanks do?

- They won both games.

- Great. Thanks.

- $ 18.62.

Thompson, $ 11.33.

Credit, credit, credit.

Nobody pays anymore.

I know they gotta eat, Esther,

but we gotta eat too.

The Depression is a Depression

for us and everybody.

What Depression?

With two chickens in every pot?

It's no joke, Flossie. It's no joke at all.

Who said it was funny? I got a run

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Odets was widely seen as a successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill as O'Neill began to retire from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash in the mid-1930s. From early 1935 on, Odets' socially relevant dramas proved extremely influential, particularly for the remainder of the Great Depression. Odets' works inspired the next several generations of playwrights, including Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon, David Mamet, and Jon Robin Baitz. After the production of his play Clash by Night in the 1941–1942 season, Odets focused his energies on film projects, remaining in Hollywood for the next seven years. He began to be eclipsed by such playwrights as Miller, Tennessee Williams and, in 1950, William Inge. Except for his adaptation of Konstantin Simonov's play The Russian People in the 1942–1943 season, Odets did not return to Broadway until 1949, with the premiere of The Big Knife, an allegorical play about Hollywood. At the time of his death in 1963, Odets was serving as both script writer and script supervisor on The Richard Boone Show, born of a plan for televised repertory theater. Though many obituaries lamented his work in Hollywood and considered him someone who had not lived up to his promise, director Elia Kazan understood it differently. "The tragedy of our times in the theatre is the tragedy of Clifford Odets," Kazan began, before defending his late friend against the accusations of failure that had appeared in his obituaries. "His plan, he said, was to . . . come back to New York and get [some new] plays on. They’d be, he assured me, the best plays of his life. . . .Cliff wasn't 'shot.' . . . The mind and talent were alive in the man." more…

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