The Angel with the Trumpet

1950

Drama

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 178 178

Plot summary

Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.

Director

Anthony Bushell Photo
Anthony Bushell

Top cast

Campbell Cotts Photo
Campbell Cotts as Gen. Paskiewicz
Norman Wooland Photo
Norman Wooland as Prince Rudolf
Rupert Davies Photo
Rupert Davies as Police officer
Maria Schell Photo
Maria Schell as Anna Linden
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907.2 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 38 min
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1.65 GB
1482*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 7 / 10

Sentimental, moving film about a family in Vienna

The story of a wealthy family in Vienna from the end of the Austrian Empire through the Nazi's and WWII. Somewhat old fashioned and it starts a little slowly, but wonderfully made and very moving. Cast is mostly British but includes some real Austrians such as Maria Schell and Oskar Werner. Perhaps I am somewhat biased because I have always been interested in "old Vienna" but I found it fascinating.
Reviewed by 5 / 10

The Forthright Saga - Wooden Tales From Vienna

Reviewed by 6 / 10

What audience did they think would pay to see this?

You could say "The Angel with the Trumpet" is the story of a house or, at least, the story of a family and it was a very strange picture to have come out of Britain at the time until you realise it was a remake of an Austrian film made 2 years earlier. It begins at the end of the 19th century and follows one particular family living in the same house in Vienna up to the rise of Nazism and it's populated by a cast of well-known British thespians being very British while pretending they're Austrian. It was directed by the actor Anthony Bushell who also appears and it features early performances from a couple of actual Austrian actors, namely Maria Schell and Oskar Werner.The star of the picture is Eileen Herlie, who basically links the stories through the decades. She's really quite superb but the film is stiffer than a shop full of corsets and virtually everyone else miscast. It's certainly beautifully designed and photographed and Bushell's direction is both imaginative and subtle but who in hell did they imagine would pay to see it. This kind of yarn went out with the Ark or at least with D. W. Griffith. A curio that is virtually unknown today, (the original isn't known at all), but one that, in its very odd way, may be actually worth rediscovering.
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