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The Climax (1944)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1944
Running Times: 86 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: George Waggner
SCRIPT
Script: Curt Siodmak, Lynn Starling
Adaptation: Curt Siodmak
Play: Edward Locke
Librettos: George Waggner
DIRECTION
Director: George Waggner
Assistant Director: Charles Gould
PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: W. Howard Greene, Hal Mohr
Colour Consultant: Natalie Kalmus
Lab: Technicolor
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Russell Schoengarth
MUSIC
Music: Edward Ward
Lyrics: George Waggner
Orchestrator: Harold Zweifel
SOUND
Sound: William Fox
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman
Set Decorators: Russell A. Gausman, Ira S. Webb
OTHER CREW
Choreographer: Lester Horton
CAST
Boris Karloff (Dr
Hohner)
Susanna Foster (Angela)
Turhan Bey (Franz)
Gale Sondergaard (Luise)
Thomas Gomez (Count Seebruck)
June Vincent (Marcellina)
George Dolenz (Amato Roselli)
Ludwig Stössel (Carl Baumann)
Jane Farrar (Jarmila Vadek)
Ernö Verebes (Brunn)
Lotte Stein (Mama Hinzel)
Scotty Beckett (the King)
William Edmunds (Leon)
Maxwell Hayes (King's ride)
Dorothy Lawrence (Miss Metzger)
Grace Cunard (uncredited)
William Desmond (uncredited)
Francis Ford (uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Driven mad by jealousy, Dr Hohner, the resident
physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his lover, the star
soprano. Ten years later, another young singer Angela, joins the theatre
and reminds Hohner so much of his former love that his old rage resurfaces.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures
Video Distributor: MCA/Universal Pictures
Laserdisc Distributor: MCA Home Video (42889)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
USA
Rating: unrated
AWARDS
1945
Academy Awards, USA
Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Colour (John B. Goodman, Alexander
Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman, Ira Webb) - nominated
TIMELINE
1944
October
20: USA – theatrical release
1947
January
31: Finland – theatrical release
1996
August
13: USA - laserdisc release (MCA Home Video (42889))
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Vaarallinen rakkaus - Finnish title
La voce magica - Italian title
LINKS
REMAKE OF
The Climax (1930)
SEE ALSO
Opera (1987)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Universal Horrors (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
and Co (1990))
article (by Michael Brunas, John Brunas and Tom Weaver) KEYWORDS
doctors; jealousy; play into film; singers; theatres
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