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The Robber Symphony

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The Robber Symphony
Directed byFriedrich Feher
StarringHans Feher
Magda Sonja
Music byFriedrich Feher
Color processblack and white
Release date
  • April 1936 (1936-04)
Running time
2h 16min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Robber Symphony is a 1936 British musical film directed by Friedrich Feher.[1]

Cast

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Reception

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Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed reception. Despite characterizing the picture as "certainly the most interesting film of the last twelve months", Greene found the film to deliver a "priggish[] reprimand [with] a didactic note". Praising the story as "excellent" and dwelling on the "superb sequence of four player-pianos dragged across the Alps", Greene nevertheless complained that "in so far as [Feher's] experiment is original, it is barren."[2]

Trivia

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The leading roles of Giannino and Giannino's mother were played by the director's son and wife.

References

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  1. ^ "The Robber Symphony". TV Guide.
  2. ^ Greene, Graham (24 May 1936). "The Robber Symphony/The Littlest Rebel/The Emperor's Candlesticks". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. pp. 76–78. ISBN 0192812866.)
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