IMDb plot summary: A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.
Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, and Lucile Watson.
There's something kind of refreshing in today's age of nitpicky "plot hole" criticism to watch a romantic comedy that's just so overtly ridiculous. This movie pretends to be loosely set in the real world, but the plot devices involving the dogs are just so silly that they make me smile. But in no way does it acknowledge the silliness of it -- it just asks us to live in this goofy world, and I was quite happy to do so. It reminded me a bit of the Rogers/Astaire vehicle Carefree I watched earlier this year in its cheerful disregard for accuracy. This isn't stellar but I enjoyed it quite a bit.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Emperor Waltz > Ramona and Beezus
The Emperor Waltz < A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit
The Emperor Waltz > Marjorie Prime
The Emperor Waltz > The Exterminating Angel
The Emperor Waltz > Flushed Away
The Emperor Waltz > M
The Emperor Waltz < The Dictator
The Emperor Waltz < What's Eating Gilbert Grape
The Emperor Waltz > Under the Skin
The Emperor Waltz < Frankenweenie
The Emperor Waltz > The Happening
Final spot: #775 out of 2948.
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