Up in Central Park

The best song eliminated!
"Close as Pages in a Book" in my opinion , is a gorgeous song and actually was in the film. Apparently, this DVD is 81 minutes where the original release is 88! The beautiful music to this number is played under the opening credits AND at the end of the film. I've seen the film before and it was definitely in there! I have no idea why it was eliminated. Pretty good print otherwise. Durbin and Price wonderful...Haymes mis-cast. BUYER BEWARE!!

Wasted Talent
Despite fine singing by Durbin and Haymes, who also handle well their acting assignments, and the acting of the always appealing Vincent Price, this is a mediocre film translation of a Broadway musical hit with a score by the reliable hit-maker, Sigmund Romberg. There is nothing outright terrible about it, performers do a professional job with the script and direction with which they had to work but they simply could not overcome the defects inherent in decisions made by the production chiefs. Color would have helped appreciably to take ones mind off the cliched dreariness of the script, but it had not yet become standard in the time period in which it was made. So, Deanna Durbin fans, here is one you will want to see since it contributed to her decision to end her career before she was able to transform herself into an adult performer. Dick Haymes, too, soon began a downward slide which aborted the career that might have been for a singer with one of the best baritone voices among...

Cant say no to Deanna........
There's only so many films that stars Deanna Durbin, and to me they are all good. Some better than others but most of them have Deanna singing along
in nice little stories that are easy to digest.
Deanna, sure had that golden voice to make you stop and stare and listen.
In this movie she is a Irish Immigrant looking for a better life for her
father and herself. Still a good movie, even if they dropped a few songs.
I cringe when i read that there would be a evil person, played by
Vincent Price, but i forgot these are the 50's and evil does not point to
gun, blood, exploding heads and foul language...crooked and evil in the 50's
movies the characters were more cunning and after material and money. So
Vincent Price played quite a ' Nice' bad person,,especially compared to today
movies.
They dont and cant make these anymore as the younger audience would probably
would'nt have the patience...and probably results to texting...

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