King's Rhapsody (film)

King's Rhapsody
1955 theatrical poster
Directed by	Herbert Wilcox
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Based on	musical by Ivor Novello
Starring	Errol Flynn Anna Neagle Patrice Wymore
Production company	British Lion Films
Distributed by	United Artists (US)
Release dates	26 October 1955 (UK) 1957 (US)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£90,884 (UK)^[1]

King's Rhapsody is a 1955 English musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn and Patrice Wymore. It was based on the musical King's Rhapsody by Ivor Novello.^[2]

Cast

Anna Neagle – Marta Karillos
Errol Flynn – Richard, King of Laurentia
Patrice Wymore – Princess Cristiane
Martita Hunt – Queen Mother
Finlay Currie – King Paul
Francis De Wolff – The Prime Minister
Joan Benham – Countess Astrid
Reginald Tate – King Peter
Miles Malleson – Jules
Edmund Hockridge – The Serenader

Production notes

The film was the first of what was meant to be a six-film deal over three years worth £2,500,000.^[3] The intention was that Flynn and Neagle would form a team along the lines of Neagle's pairing with Michael Wilding, starting with The White Witch of Rose Hall in Jamaica.^[4] However this was the last of the two movies they made together.
Released on VHS home video; not available on DVD

Release

The film disappointed at the box office.^[5]

References

↑ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p506
↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/39104
↑ "Errol Flynn's Big Film Deal.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 15 October 1954. p. 3. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
↑ "FINCH'S BIG CHANCE IN U.K. FILM.". The Sunday Times (Perth: National Library of Australia). 16 January 1955. p. 38. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
↑ Tony Thomas, Rudy Behlmer & Clifford McCarty, The Films of Errol Flynn, Citadel Press, 1969 p 206

External links

King's Rhapsody at the Internet Movie Database
King's Rhapsody at Brit Movie

The films of Herbert Wilcox

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Mumsie (1927)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Only Way (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

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