Mozart

Yes, there was some cinematic interest in the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart long before Milos Forman's Academy Award winning film AMADEUS. MOZART was one in a series of European 1930s and 1940s films based on the lives of great composers, but it is one of the weakest. Confused and weakly scripted, MOZART really doesn't seem to focus on any particular aspect of the brilliant composer's life, but instead rushes through dozens of incidents without developing them. Haggard is miscast as Mozart and elicits little viewer sympathy (or interest for that matter), and Hopper as his wife is shrill and unappealing. The music, however, is superb as performed by the London Phi...