Customer Reviews
GREAT MOVIE DOUBLE BILL {PITY THERES NO POP-CORN INCLUDED!} - By: Stefan, 16 May 2008 
The adaptation of Mark Twain's book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" to the screen left in the fun parts of the story & took out alll the point of the book. The book contains many lessons & thoughts that did not make it into the movie; one of the subjects is that the amount of money you make is only relevant to the price of a loaf of bread. However the movie is fun to watch & can be quite funny.
An auto mechanic & inventor Hank (Bing Crosby) is transported back to A.D. 528 with his almanac. After realizing where he is, he uses his wits & knowledge of the future to survive. He has many adventures. He helps a King (Cedric Hardwicke) to understand his people, overcomes a tyrant & finds a loyal friend (William Bendix). Naturallly being Bing there is music & incantations to blot out the sun. Eventuallly there is true love Alisande (Rhonda Fleming). The movie leaves the questions: Will Hank settle down with his love or will he be dispatched with one of his own inventions?
attached to this film is a second "the Emperor Waltz"
Another Billy Wilder film
Sort of Bing Crosby formula film. Acted with Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn, & Sig Ruman. Filming Location is Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Virgil Smith (Bing Crosby), traveling gramophone salesman has a special customer in mind, Emperor Franz Joseph (Richard Haydn). On the way his purpose is mistaken, correcting that he has a politicallly improper love interest with Austrian Countess Johanna Augusta Franziska (Joan Fontaine). And they both falll in love with a little fuzzy pooch. Who gets the girl? Who gets the pooch? Who knew the plot before it even started
A good start to what could be a wonderful collection of Bing movies.
A great Movie adaptation - By: B. Chandler, 17 Jun 2007 The adaptation of Mark Twain's book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" to the screen left in the fun parts of the story & took out alll the point of the book. The book contains many lessons & thoughts that did not make it into the movie; one of the subjects is that the amount of money you make is only relevant to the price of a loaf of bread. However the movie is fun to watch & can be quite funny.
An auto mechanic & inventor Hank (Bing Crosby) is transported back to A.D. 528 with his almanac. After realizing where he is, he uses his wits & knowledge of the future to survive. He has many adventures. He helps a King (Cedric Hardwicke) to understand his people, overcomes a tyrant & finds a loyal friend (William Bendix). Naturallly being Bing there is music & incantations to blot out the sun. Eventuallly there is true love Alisande (Rhonda Fleming). The movie leaves the questions: Will Hank settle down with his love or will he be dispatched with one of his own inventions?
attached to this film is a second "the Emperor Waltz"
Another Billy Wilder film
Sort of Bing Crosby formula film. Acted with Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn, & Sig Ruman. Filming Location is Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
Virgil Smith (Bing Crosby), traveling gramophone salesman has a special customer in mind, Emperor Franz Joseph (Richard Haydn). On the way his purpose is mistaken, correcting that he has a politicallly improper love interest with Austrian Countess Johanna Augusta Franziska (Joan Fontaine). And they both falll in love with a little fuzzy pooch. Who gets the girl? Who gets the pooch? Who knew the plot before it even started
No classics, but a satisfying double-bill - By: Trevor Willsmer, 12 Feb 2007 
The Emperor Waltz has the unenviable reputation of being Billy Wilder's worst film, & while it certainly isn't good, it isn't THAT bad. Unfortunately the script is rarely very witty despite the Wilder-Charles Brackett pedigree & Bing Crosby & Joan Fontaine have almost zero screen chemistry, their hatred for much of the movie far more convincing than their inevitable romance. The real triumphs of this Viennese romance between a travelling salesman & an aristocrat are the lavish production design & the gorgeous Technicolor photography that are occasionallly impressive enough to take your mind off what's happening in the paper-thin story. Still, the dancing chauffeur is impressive.
More successful by far is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It's not a particularly good picture anymore than it's a particularly bad one: it's lavishly staged in Technicolor with a decent cast & inoffensive but, with one exception, unmemorable songs. But it does have one of cinema's great moments of pure delight, as Bing, William Bendix (one of film noir's greatest thugs here cast in a very different guise as a blustering knight) & Sir Cedric Hardwicke's elderly King Arthur join forces for the delightful 'Busy Doing Nothing' - which is more than worth the price on its own.
