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Title

The Broken Melody

Released

1938

Production Year

1938

Director

Ken Hall

Comments

A very long opera sequence towards the end. The film drags a bit, and could have been better if it had a little more pace.

Available from Cinemedia on 16mm.

Synopsis

The University rowing team win the boatrace competition. Celebrations at a nightclub result in a brawl, causing John Ainsworth to be expelled from University and consequently rejected by his father. Depressed, he helplessly wanders about the city streets and saves
a girl, Ann, from commiting suicide. Together they share a dwelling, and through Ann's inspiration, John recommences playing his violin, an old talent he'd relinquished.
From playing on a street corner, he progresses up to working in a cabaret. Ann leaves John, for she feels, he can concentrate more on his career and develop better without her.
John goes to England, where he becomes a famous composer and conductor. After some time he returns to Australia to conduct his own opera touring company. The lead soprano abruptly decides not to sing for the show, thus the understudy is suddenly thrust on stage. Astonished, John recognises that it is Ann. In the end, the opera proves successful, John and Ann are reunited, and the father-son relationship is reconciled.

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