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977: 1030: 953: 31: 403:'s "Independent Frame" production system, an attempt to innovate filmmaking. When 12 years old Jeremy Spenser was given the part, he spent many weeks before filming began being taught how to conduct an orchestra by Marcus Dods, who was, at that time, assistant to film composer / conductor Muir Mathieson, with the result that Jeremy's conducting scenes looked convincing. 236:
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes friendly with young Guido. Morell discovers Guido has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighbouring couple, Signor
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Guido is tutored by Dr. Lorenzo. Signora Bondini denies the boy all contact with his parents and everyone else except her. She also neither sends his letters to his family, nor lets him see the ones they have sent to him. He becomes phenomenally successful and makes the grand tour of Europe, while
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and Signora Boudini, become aware of the boy's talents, and the Signora appeals to Guido's parents to let her educate him musically. Torn between their love for their son and the duty they feel to let the world hear his talent, they eventually consent.
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Signora Bondini is enraptured by the acclaim given her through her "discovery" of the boy. She prepares to take him to America and also prepares adoption papers.
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This article related to a British film of the 1950s is a
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Fergus McDonell
Aldous Huxley
Robert Westerby
Bridget Boland
Guy Rolfe
Kathleen Byron
Kathleen Ryan
George Stretton
Sidney Hayers
Muir Mathieson
Two Cities Films
General Film Distributors
drama film
Fergus McDonell
Guy Rolfe
Kathleen Byron
Kathleen Ryan
Aldous Huxley
Guy Rolfe
Kathleen Byron
Kathleen Ryan
Jeremy Spenser
Henry Oscar
Rosalie Crutchley
John Slater
James Robertson Justice
Ferdy Mayne
Robert Rietty
Robin Dowell

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