Yes, they were great days. One of the benefits of you tube.

My family spent our Sunday afternoons watching old movies too.

It reminds me of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

Yes, l agree..... AND in modern today, the streets have all types of : "shit" on the streets:

@@fritula6200 Canadian cities are really good that way. Except for a few areas they're very clean, even the less pleasant areas. The spots with garbage and needles are very, very rare.

Mario Lanza is not in this movie.

@@robertm.hefley6616 Mario Lanza sang many songs from this movie on recordings/radio but never was in the film.

+Alfred Borg I am also a Maltese who loved Oreste he was a greatt singer and the Maltese were very proud of him MAY He rest IN Peace

He died, sadly, when he saw The Vagabond King. Nobody went to the funeral.

Chi Hatcher so do I, I love historical movies

Totally could have picked a way better cast. Would've been even better

Maybe the budget wasn't big enough to get the better known actors. It is well done in every way, but the better known stars would make it better.

Don't believe every biography that you read.

By her own accounts (Moreno's), she: 01. Lived in the mainland since the age of three; 02. Never had a Latin accent. Such was feigned in the movies, to accommodate for the roles she would be assigned to play.

Considering Rita in those days, the admiration was definitely on the side of a French man this dashing

Nothing humble about the lovely Rita.

The famous crook? Who often wrote about his illegal behavior in his poems

I agree, thank you for your time and effort.

Lanza is not in this film....nor is his voice used for the singing.

The singer in this movie is Qreste Kirkop He is a Maltese born singer not Italian

Mario Lanza was indeed a great singer. Almost as good as Caruso ... it's difficult to compare though because the recording techniques in Caruso's time were lacking in quality. Sad. Nevertheless, I love Mario Lanzas voice too. God-given. Such a voice is rare indeed. Talent combined with training. A dying art. Kirkop I didn't know - so thanks for the information. Why don't they make them like that anymore?

Norma Hobson , We all have our preferences, and mine is Juan Diego Florez. Yes, Mario Panza had a great voice, but, as far as I am aware, he never sang in, opera. That requires a singer whose voice carries to the back of the great opera and concert halls, without the benefit of microphones and other 'enhancements'. Even a moderately good singer can sound amazing with the little aids used in films. As you seem to enjoy good music, Google Juan Diego. I have never heard better, and he has film star looks too!

He really is quite handsome, I must admit.

+LIZZIE SANGI Sangi (Lizzie) yes, it is vincent

Rebecca Salazar ik

+Rebecca Salazar we are of a few hundred that enjoy movies like this. sadly, hollywood needs several thousand to even suggest a production start. Russell Crowe in "Gladiator"

After paying for high priced actors, all the money that's left is barely enough for green screen acting and buying scenes from other movies.

Rebecca Yes,I agree but that's not possible. We as a society are less innocent and less loving, judgmental and mean..

not every old film is a classic. not every modern film is 'rubbish'. many new films are exceedingly good. you just have to sift through all the not so pleasant ones to find them. strangely enough, you have to do the same thing with old films. there are many, MANY very, VERY low quality ones.

Because the quality of the audiences has deteriorated from immigration and from interbreedin. Also because of massive mind-control and sorcery on the part of the leaders of the corporations.

@@stevequizodlibumpbumpbump3575 The fault lies ENTIRELY with the dumbing down AND destruction of entertainment ... by the communist elements (social justice and feminism) which have taken over the West. Immigration and breeding have nothing to do with it ...

One simple reason: pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I don’t mean to be rude, but “interbreeding”? As someone who’s Greek, Italian, German, and Irish, (some who have been here since the 1800s, others since the 1940s), I can’t agree with this part of your comment… now the “mind control” part in the other hand is a much more understandable argument 😅

The soul is done for

Watching the documentary on her that was just on PBS, I get the impression it broke Rita's heart to keep having to play "exotic" roles like this.

Did I hear Vincent Price narrating?

True. But nothing Rita made, including the dazzling classics, West Side Story and The King and I - made Rita happy. She had a good, solid career. Way better than some of her peers. Enough already.

Aha! So that's the reason he had an accent while singing but not while speaking.

Dale E: Exactly... and a reason why he did not become "the next Mario Lanza".

Robert Waldren IMO there were several other factors much more important than that. His voice didn't even approach the beauty and strength of Mario Lanza. I'm in complete agreement that Mario was "The greatest voice of the 20th century."

+Robert Waldren Sorry but he did not need to be the next Mario Lanza as he was a great singer who sang in the greatest opera houses in the world which Mario Lanza never did he was only a movie star a good singerbut only in Movies

+josephine vogel oh aren't we precious....

And the most anachronistic part of the film

Didn't you read the credits ?

@@queenmedesa and you second😉

They were in the 1939 version of the hunchback of Notre dame too , which was set in the same period

Indeed! Thank you for reminding me!

Sorry to bring you the bad news, Allan. Katherine Grayson and Oreste Kirkup loathed each other. And she refused to speak about the film.

Do you know why this was Kathryn Grayson's last film? Awaiting your kind reply, as I have always thought she was one of Hollywood's best of that era.

ThreeAMWoman K.G. Appeared on silver screen now and then since 1956 (she even appeared as a guest star in three episodes "Murder, She Wrote" with Angela Lansbury), but it interfered with her musical career constantly. Grayson trained from the age of twelve as an opera singer. Besides being an opera singer and an actress she also supervised the Voice and Choral Studies Program at Idaho State University. One more amusing fact for you: While shooting the Madame Butterfly scene in the film with Mario Lanza, Lanza kept attempting to french kiss Grayson, which Grayson claimed was made even worse by the fact that Lanza would constantly eat garlic before shooting. Grayson went to costume designer Helen Rose and she sewed pieces of brass into Grayson's gloves. Any time Lanza attempted to french kiss her after that, she hit him with the brass-filled glove. :-))

Thank you so very much, Natalia, for your interesting reply. I will have to look for the episodes of "Murder She Wrote" she appeared in. I have always loved K.G. since my childhood in the 1950's. Being voice chorus trained for many years...until my 20's, I appreciate her lovely & great voice...also her beauty :)

You are very welcome! It was a pleasure "talking" to you! Being an artist I appreciate beauty in all its forms, and being a romantic I appreciate music also. But one of the great disappointments of my life is the complete lack of ANY singing ability - I could not hold a note to save my life.

Oh, but you have the gift of The Arts & the gift of Appreciation, Natalia! I am also a romantic & appreciate beauty in all forms. Have artistic abilities in most ways, except drawing or painting. I regret that & sometimes feel like I could do it, but at 67 years of age, I am happy with what I have been given. It has been a pleasure speaking with you. You are an interesting person.

Are you and Dad still speaking??

@@jochenstossberg5427 Unfortunately no because he died in 1971.

I would like to say it was during a swordfight in a tavern, but it wasn't.

She hated it as much as you did, so don't feel bad.

I'm halfway through with this version of the story & I have to admit that I prefer -hands down - the older movie with Basil Rathbone as Louis XI. This one is grating on my nerves with all the tomcat-on-a-fence-post-screeching.

@@jennifermcclain4478 🤣😁🎼🎵🎶

Thanks for suggestion. Following your advice, I have downloaded both the movies. You made my weekend.

@@miqbalmian I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

On the contrary Rita Moreno was a member of the exclusive E.G.O.T. Club (Emmy / Grammy / Oscar / Tony). Rita Moreno did receive her fair share of recognition and then some.

She got all the attention she deserved. She was sensational in one great, classic film - and she had a good solid career.

well said!

Yes, well said, Nathan. Thank you for your statement.

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***** Absolutely.

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Clearly, this is NOT Lanza. He was an unforgettable singer with no accent as this fine gentleman had, and would have appeared in the film. Great voice for German operetta style here.however.

Pray define "organic bacon" for li'l ol'me, please? Is it a pig who roamed the woods and only ate truffles, whose meat underwent salting with only sea salt, and was only smoked with wood taken from a virgin forest? The pig is the result of modifying genes going back past Gregor Mendel. There are no non-bred pigs extant. The salt, whatever its pedigree, is some combination of mineral salts that are all chemically similar, with no distinguishable difference (although I like the Sea Salt, which has the proportions of minerals that man was made from. As to the Hickory, there you have a point. Soaking something in a solution of smoke residue, which many unscrupulous meat packers do, is like licking an ashtray.But, I am unaware of any tree which yet lives that has been genetically modified so as to make a difference in the smoking. I am truly curious, as I am not certain which point is the one I should look into further. Other than that, your suggestion is lovely. By the way, where did that Salmon come from? This is in no way a criticism of your idea. I do my own sausage, bacon, and all kinds of charcuterie and plain old pickling and smoking. I am just vague on what constitutes an "organic" label for something as highly processed as bacon (not that I don't LOVE bacon, and all its delicious cousins like prosciutto, pancetta and Jamon)? Now, if what you meant was "homemade", I am with you, but outside of raising the pig and slaughtering it yourself, obtaining sea salt from Indian beaches, and harvesting your own wood to smoke from forests which have never known the footprint of man, I need some instruction as to what is meant by "organic" when one is referring to bacon. If you are from Maine or the Northwest, I will defer to your spectacular Salmon, which must be et directly from the Sea or River to be a real treat. You could use a smoked tire tread and it would still be Magnifico! Bye the bye, do you know that bacon originated when household pigs became fat from their human's prosperity? A lean pig's bacon will rot very fast. It takes lots of fat, salt, and smoke to give us one of God's greatest gifts to Man, which will last through a hard winter, almost any conditions, and is so very portable in its hardset form. The greatest discoveries and voyages have only been made possible by our little pig friends and their fat bellies, along with the calories and flavor they contain. By the way, get you a Brinkmann's smoker, and you won't need the bacon. I make the Realsmoker, which is a bit more Hillbilly, redneck, Bar-B-Que, and although it would, and often has, done fish fine, you would have to be cooking it for a thousand people to use it efficiently. An entire pig, split, is more our style. Or twenty chickens. Bon Appetite!

George Soros Obviously, George, you had nothing better to do than to spoil a good joke with a lot of unconnected data trivia. That was unnecessary and pedantic.

George Soros no non-bred pigs extant. still wild boars (which also give us delicious bacon) in the jungles of Vietnam and Indonesia

Bingo!

All pigs, including "wild" boars now living have some domesticated roots. Multitudes have returned to the forests in certain places, but there is no such a thing as a pig which has not been bred for purpose.

The director criticaster Married singing he ordered to recording (my beloved) and Mario rebelt,l would too.

Mario Lanza didn't walk off the set of The Student Prince. He was carried off. Or carted off. He was so overweight that he couldn't fit into his costumes and the cameras were ready to roll.

They don't do musicals anymore, except for a few like La La Land, and when they do, they're sappier than this.

@@vrinda5303 if that crap is a musical

Nobody wanted to make it Steve. And nobody, apart from Oreste Kirkup, who thought he was going to be huge movie star wanted to be in it either. End of contracts rubbish for all concerned.

@@jochenstossberg5427 Somehow, "Oreste Kirkup" just doesn't seem right on a theater marquee.

Hilarious crack! Still laaughing.

but there will come where this pseudo intellectual criticizing Mario Lanza, gross and grim cockroach can go somewhere to nail your blog so imbecile poison

You can buy one cheap that goes right into your computer. I have one so I could record old LPs like that onto cd's or save aas files. Google "USB turntable and you'll find many, pretty cheap. It turned out to be a good investment since hurricane Sandy wiped out my actual LPs, but not the ones I had already saved.

George Soros

I heard ppl used to hide knifes up their sleeves. Thats why back in the day they'd shake arms, not hands...to check.

I read that king Louis XI was called the Spider King

Could you provide a link on that? Oreste Kirkop was pretty busy with the opera before, during and after the year he made The Vagabond King. I don't see why he would quit the stage, where he was already a star, to start a different career in Hollywood; he didn't even live in the US. Four years after the movie, when he was 37, his doctors told him to quit the opera if he didn't want to die onstage with a heart attack, and he retired.

Oreste was my father's cousin. He had a heart condition and was advised to stop performing.