Waltzes from Vienna

Johann Strauss the Younger (Esmond Knight) wants to write music, but his father (Edmund Gwenn), the famous Johann Strauss the Elder, wants him in a bakery with a steady wage. He is pulled between Resi (Jessie Matthews), the baker's daughter he loves, and Countess Helga von Stahl (Fay Compton), a wealthy patron who believes in his talent. Hitchcock, in one of his few operetta films, stages Vienna's waltzes and rivalries with a theatrical, stagebound sweep.