Anybody who loves great acting, even better singing, beautiful visuals, great scripting, an inspiring and moving story and some of the best music ever written will simply love Interrupted Melody, as it has every single one of those things. It is a beautifully produced film, lavishly shot with equally glamorous costumes and sets and bursting with colour. The music, with Carmen, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner(the roles of whom Marjorie Lawrence was most famous for) as well as renditions of Waltzing Matilda and Over the Rainbow cannot be faulted, not everybody I'm aware likes opera music, I adore it myself and the music presented here is some of the best of the medium. The scenes in which they appear are very well-staged, Gotterdammerung's Immolation Scene in relation to Lawrence is interesting for Lawrence being the first in the role to ride the horse into the flames. The story is inspiring, with the drama with the polio handled most sensitively and movingly, while the script sparkles, it won an Oscar and deserved it. The direction is deft, allowing the drama to resonate and doesn't let things get overblown. Eleanor Parker gives one of her best performances, she is very beautiful, determined and very poignant being overwrought, and Glenn Ford is superb also, some of the best work he ever did. The two work affectingly together, and the supporting cast are solid especially Roger Moore. Special mention should also go to Eileen Farrell(35 at this point) who provided singing voice for Parker, and she is nothing short of sensational, her voice was powerful, thrilling and of quite beautiful tone complete with a big range which she always used with great artistry. What's also remarkable is that even when you don't see her on screen, she still brings out the character through her vocal expression. All in all, beautiful, not just as a biographical drama but as a film full-stop. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Review of Interrupted Melody
