The Glass Mountain (1949)

★ 6.0 1h 28m IMDb

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.

The Glass Mountain

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Cast

Michael Denison
Michael Denison as Richard Wilder Died 1998 · Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK John Michael Terence Wellesley Denison CBE (1 November 1915 – 22 July 1998) was a noted English actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Denison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list...
Dulcie Gray
Dulcie Gray as Anne Wilder Died 2011 · Kuala Lumpur, Malaya From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dulcie Gray, CBE (born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011) was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a...
Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese as Alida Morrosini Died 2019 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress. The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard B...
Sebastian Shaw
Sebastian Shaw as Bruce McLeod Died 1994 · Holt, Norfolk, England, UK Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television producti...
Tito Gobbi
Tito Gobbi as Tito Gobbi Died 1984 · Bassano del Grappa, Italy Tito Gobbi (24 October 1913 – 5 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation. He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's La sonnambula...
Antonio Centa
Antonio Centa as Gino, Alida's boyfriend Died 1979 · Maniago, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy Antonio Centa (10 August 1907 – 19 April 1979) was an Italian film actor. Born in Maniago, Province of Pordenone, Centa was among the most active and popular actors between the mid-1930s and 1943 (wh...

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CinemaSerf 6/10 Jul 09, 2022
This is really all about the magnificent score from Nino Rota - I remember my mum had it on an LP (sorry if you have to google that) and alongside "the Warsaw Concerto" was regularly heard emanating from our old record player. The story itself is a gentle romance with real-life couple Michael Denison, a would-be composer who joins the RAF in WWII and Dulcie Gray. He is shot down over Italy where he spends much of the rest of the conflict and gradually falls in love with a gorgeous Valentina Cortese. Once the war is over, he is repatriated and finds success with his music but can't quite reconcile his conflicted love life. It's a lovely little story, tinged with tragedy, done on a shoestring budget with some pretty scenic photography. It runs a bit too much to language at times and it could lose 20 minutes, I felt, but very much emblematic of British sentiment immediately after the end of the war.

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