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'Goodnight, Vienna' is a 1932 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina Malo.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022229/ IMDB] Two lovers in Vienna are separated by the First World War, but are later reunited.

Based on a radio operetta written by Eric Maschwitz, it features the song "Good-night, Vienna". Wilcox reportedly cast Neagle, whom he would later marry and direct in many films, after discovering her by chance in a stage show.Street p.165

Plot



Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again.

Cast



* Jack Buchanan - Captain Maximilian Schletoff

* Anna Neagle - Vicki

* Gina Malo - Frieda

* Clive Currie - General Schletoff

* William Kendall - Ernst

* Joyce Bland - Countess Helga

* Gibb McLaughlin - Max's Orderly

* Herbert Carrick - Johann

* Clifford Heatherley - Donelli

* O. B. Clarence - Theatre Manager

* Peggy Cartwright - Greta

* Muriel Aked - Marya

* Aubrey Fitzgerald - Waiter

Production



Herbert Wilcox was played the score by Eric Maschwitz and George Posford. He liked it and bought the rights. Within a week Wilcox persuaded Jack Buchanan to play the lead. He wanted Lea Seidl or Evelyn Lane to play the female lead but neither was available. He went to tell Buchanan that the film was going to be postponed; Buchanan was playing in a show 'Stand Up and Sing' with Anna Neagle. Wilcox was impressed by Neagle and cast her at a fee of 150. The film was shot in three weeks before Buchanan had to leave to appear in 'Stand Up and Sing' at Liverpool. During the making of the film, Wilcox and Neagle fell in love

Reception



The film was Wilcox's most commercially successful until that time.

Cultural References



* In the TV Series Rising Damp the lead character Rigsby often puts his cat Vienna out with the phrase Goodnight, Vienna

* The phrase is used in the TV Movie Housewife, 49 when someone passes away

* Goodnight Vienna is the title of the fourth album by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr

* In the opening scene of the 'Jeeves and Wooster' episode 'The Purity of the Turf', Hugh Laurie, in the character of Bertie Wooster, sings fragments of the film's title song

* In the BBC's Sherlock, "The Great Game" (Series 1: Episode 3), Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock examines a corpse, saying, "Nasty wound. Tetanus bacteria enters the bloodstream... Good night, Vienna."

*In the video game Bloons Tower Defense 6, upon seeing a B.A.D, the hero Benjamin will simply say "Goodnight, Vienna."

References



;Notes

;Bibliography

* Street, Sarah. 'British National Cinema'. Routledge, 2009.


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