Can anyone confirm whether the opening narration in this film was spoken by Jack Hawkins?

What audience did they think would pay to see this?

studio: produced at London Film Studios Shepperton England

London Film Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Maggie Smith and George Nader in Nowhere to Go (1958)

Anita Ekberg and Victor Mature in Pickup Alley (1957)

Stewart Granger and Valerie Hobson in Blanche Fury (1948)

Denholm Elliott, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, and Ralph Richardson in The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, and Connie Stevens in Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

Anthony Bushell and Eileen Herlie in The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)

Eileen Herlie in The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)

Eileen Herlie

Basil Sydney

Norman Wooland

Ernst Lothar

Karl Hartl

Franz Tassié

In the nineteenth century, a young Austrian woman marries into a wealthy family and witnesses the country change through the course of four decades.

Anthony Bushell

The Angel with the Trumpet

You could say &quot;The Angel with the Trumpet&quot; is the story of a house or, at least, the story of a family and it was a very strange picture to have come out of Britain at the time until you realise it was a remake of an Austrian film made 2 years earlier. It begins at the end of the 19th century and follows one particular family living in the same house in Vienna up to the rise of Nazism and it&apos;s populated by a cast of well-known British thespians being very British while pretending they&apos;re Austrian. It was directed by the actor Anthony Bushell who also appears and it features early performances from a couple of actual Austrian actors, namely Maria Schell and Oskar Werner.

The star of the picture is Eileen Herlie, who basically links the stories through the decades. She&apos;s really quite superb but the film is stiffer than a shop full of corsets and virtually everyone else miscast. It&apos;s certainly beautifully designed and photographed and Bushell&apos;s direction is both imaginative and subtle but who in hell did they imagine would pay to see it. This kind of yarn went out with the Ark or at least with D. W. Griffith. A curio that is virtually unknown today, (the original isn&apos;t known at all), but one that, in its very odd way, may be actually worth rediscovering.

You could say "The Angel with the Trumpet" is the story of a house or, at least, the story of a family and it was a very strange picture to have come out of Britain at the time until you realise it was a remake of an Austrian film made 2 years earlier. It begins at the end of the 19th century and follows one particular family living in the same house in Vienna up to the rise of Nazism and it's populated by a cast of well-known British thespians being very British while pretending they're Austrian. It was directed by the actor Anthony Bushell who also appears and it features early performances from a couple of actual Austrian actors, namely Maria Schell and Oskar Werner.

The star of the picture is Eileen Herlie, who basically links the stories through the decades. She's really quite superb but the film is stiffer than a shop full of corsets and virtually everyone else miscast. It's certainly beautifully designed and photographed and Bushell's direction is both imaginative and subtle but who in hell did they imagine would pay to see it. This kind of yarn went out with the Ark or at least with D. W. Griffith. A curio that is virtually unknown today, (the original isn't known at all), but one that, in its very odd way, may be actually worth rediscovering.

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