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My goodness! You polled the audience members while in Austria? Here is my other favorite song from the film:

I agree. One critic at the time, and I don't recall who it was, described Marvin's rendition as eloquent and perfectly in keeping with his character. Ben Rumson was not a Met star or a Broadway musical actor...he was a rough, under-educated and flawed man.

My favorite two moments in the film are the simply beautiful "A Million Miles Away Behind the Door" and Lee Marvin's touching rendition of "Wand'rin Star". Both those songs captured moments that the rest of the film should have aspired to match, but didn't.

This film is one that instantly brings back my childhood pleasures in seeing a great story told wonderfully well. I saw it on televison, yes. Maybe just once before it was ever released on DVD, but it stuck with me. I also enjoyed the Disney version with Sean Scully playing both roles and Guy...

The film's most wonderful asset is the magnificent score by Elmer Bernstein!

He was hysterically funny as the straight young detective Michael Brick hired to find Jack Weston's Gaetano Proclo in some sort of compromising situation in "The Ritz".

Thanks to Warner Archives, I have enjoyed discovering Kay Francis over the years.. This is a particularly excellent film. Never thought of it as a comedy. I think we are lucky to have a film with both Francis and Powell. Not many film lovers these days realize she was one of the, if not THE...

Ordered! I'm looking forward to it.

I wish I could have worked at Club Spanky. I'd have made hundreds and thousands of dollars!!

One of the all-time great scenes in any star-making film was that of Turner in her final staircase descent. Even though she was ill, she was determined to see a follies review. After a while, she felt too ill to stay and started to leave. But, as she reaches the stairs, one of the songs from...

Thanks, Matt! This has been one of my favorites since seeing it on TV in the early 1960s. Can’t wait to get my BD of this

Thanks, Matt! I am looking forward to getting this one.