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The Emperor Waltz

Bing hits the high notes! Joan hits the love notes! You'll hit a happy note... in this king-sized muscial wonder!

1948 · 1h 46m · N/A Comedy, Music, Romance
Directed by Billy Wilder

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Overview

At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.

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63%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Multiple functions of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder on Waltz have given film an infectious quality that surmounts the gorgeously apt trappings against which is projected the fable of an American travelling phonograph salesman.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Brackett and Wilder have made up with casualness and charm -- and with a great deal of clever sight-humor -- for the meagerness of the idea.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten

Generally reckoned to be Wilder's worst movie.

Time Out

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