The Singing City
1930 · 98 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 56 VOTES · DIR. Carmine Gallone
Overview
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
Dialogue Timeline — 677 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:04 City of Song
00:05:18 It's "myself". "Myself"!
00:07:54 I want to sort out that boy. He cheated on me!
00:09:24 Tupf, I've told you a thousand times not to fool those people.
00:11:19 So? Does he say so?
00:16:23 Fine.
00:24:22 Please arrange for my suitcases to be brought here.
00:27:27 Isn't staying here either.
00:28:54 Very nice!
00:31:53 Albergo Quisisana, room number 34.
00:33:49 I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:43:54 I don't know yet.... perhaps...
00:46:15 Dumb-ass.
00:51:53 Congratulations!
00:55:34 Splendid!
00:59:14 with the lyric tenor discovered by him, and so on..."
01:00:54 Goodbye, then.
01:04:24 I'm staying at home. - Then I'll stay with you.
01:06:57 And now I am night-watchman.
01:09:07 it was wonderful.
01:13:52 Shall I take the middle seat?
01:17:19 Well, yes, "My dear director"...
01:20:14 What do you want?
01:28:26 You hear it somewhere, and it is so light
Cast & Characters
Jan Kiepura
Giovanni Cavallone - Fremdenführer
Brigitte Helm
Claire Landshoff - junge Witwe
Walter Janssen
Professor Andreas Breuling
Trude Berliner
Carmela - neapolitanisches Mädchen
Georg Alexander
Rudi Feldegger
Franz Maldacea
Tupf - Carmelas Bruder
Käte Bill
Susanne - Claires Zofe
Georg Berg
Herr Maier aus Berlin
Hermann Blaß
Der Empfangschef
Teddy Bill
Heini Ladenburg
Teddy Bill
Claires Verehrer
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed677
Dialogue density6.9 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line01:28:26
Production Record
DirectorCarmine Gallone
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes56